80+ Tim Berners-Lee Quotes On Internet, Inventor

Tim Berners-Lee is an English inventor, computer scientist, and MIT professor. He is best known for inventing the World Wide Web in 1989. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Consortium, an international organization dedicated to the development of web standards. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Tim Berners-Lee on internet, inventor, internet.

Top 10 Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

1. The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.
2. Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.
3. The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.
4. The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy.
5. In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.
6. The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
7. I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.
8. Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
9. The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.
10. Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.

Tim Berners-Lee Short Quotes

• You affect the world by what you browse.
• If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.
• The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.
• It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.
• A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.
• You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.
• Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
• What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.
• Cool URIs don't change
• To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

Tim Berners-Lee Quotes About Internet

It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right. That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of web users regardless of where they live. — Tim Berners-Lee

The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information. — Tim Berners-Lee

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance. — Tim Berners-Lee

Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web. — Tim Berners-Lee

Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future. — Tim Berners-Lee

When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value? — Tim Berners-Lee

Things can change so fast on the internet. — Tim Berners-Lee

The concept of the Web is of universal readership. — Tim Berners-Lee

There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look at how people and the web combine as a whole - until now. — Tim Berners-Lee

If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML. — Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee Quotes About Technology

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on. — Tim Berners-Lee

It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993. — Tim Berners-Lee

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes. — Tim Berners-Lee

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet. — Tim Berners-Lee

Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products. — Tim Berners-Lee

If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%! — Tim Berners-Lee

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done! — Tim Berners-Lee

Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind. — Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee Quotes About People

When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA. — Tim Berners-Lee

It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently. — Tim Berners-Lee

It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea. — Tim Berners-Lee

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine. — Tim Berners-Lee

The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people. — Tim Berners-Lee

As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want. — Tim Berners-Lee

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted. — Tim Berners-Lee

The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network. — Tim Berners-Lee

I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they’ve got a wonderful long-term plan. — Tim Berners-Lee

What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice. — Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee Famous Quotes And Sayings

We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?" — Tim Berners-Lee

There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected. — Tim Berners-Lee

I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time. — Tim Berners-Lee

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design. — Tim Berners-Lee

Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText. — Tim Berners-Lee

The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space. — Tim Berners-Lee

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner. — Tim Berners-Lee

When you understand things, there's no more magic. — Tim Berners-Lee

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years. — Tim Berners-Lee

The nice thing about programming at the RDF level is that you can just say, I'll ask for all the books. You can ask for all the shelves. You can ask for a given shelf whether a book was on it. And you're not worrying so much about the underlying syntax. — Tim Berners-Lee

[With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning. — Tim Berners-Lee

I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to my insurance company and I'm going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they've figured I'm looking at those books. — Tim Berners-Lee

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination. — Tim Berners-Lee

We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities. — Tim Berners-Lee

It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years. — Tim Berners-Lee

The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. — Tim Berners-Lee

Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet. — Tim Berners-Lee

It's possible to live without the Web. It's not possible to live without water. But if you've got water, then the difference between somebody who is connected to the Web and is part of the information society, and someone who (is not) is growing bigger and bigger. — Tim Berners-Lee

E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it. — Tim Berners-Lee

Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy. — Tim Berners-Lee

The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine. — Tim Berners-Lee

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things. — Tim Berners-Lee

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose. — Tim Berners-Lee

If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services. — Tim Berners-Lee

The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it. — Tim Berners-Lee

What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring. — Tim Berners-Lee

It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I'm getting in return. — Tim Berners-Lee

Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze. — Tim Berners-Lee

What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend. — Tim Berners-Lee

Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. — Tim Berners-Lee

I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings - and the Web's a form of communications - so it generally should be good. — Tim Berners-Lee

AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing. — Tim Berners-Lee

Life Lessons by Tim Berners-Lee

1. Tim Berners-Lee's work has shown us the power of collaboration and the potential of technology to connect people around the world.
2. His invention of the World Wide Web has opened up a world of possibilities in terms of communication, information sharing, and access to knowledge.
3. His work has taught us the importance of using technology responsibly and ethically, and of creating systems that are open and accessible to all.