English - Inventor | June 8, 1955 -
I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.
Tim Berners-Lee
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What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.
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When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?
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I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.
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One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.
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I should be able to pick which applications I use for managing my life, I should be able to pick which content I look at, and I should be able to pick which device I use, which company I use for supplying my internet, and I'd like those to be independent choices.
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One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.
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One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.
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In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.
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The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.
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It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.
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