Tim Berners-Lee People Quotations

Microsoft said recently that nearly 50 percent of people need to make some sort of adjustment to their system to interact with it.

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

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.

I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.

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

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.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.

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

On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.

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%!

The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . 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 to end in the U.S.A. If we had a situation in which the U.S. had serious flaws in its Net Neutrality, and Europe did have Net Neutrality, and I were trying to start a company, then I would be very tempted to move.

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.

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

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.

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.

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.

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.

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 original idea of the Web was about supporting the way people already work socially, but this doesn't happen with a lot of IT projects.

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.

It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.

It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.

The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

On the Web, you can allow people to talk to each other, but you have to guarantee that they know who's going to have access to the conversation.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.