Tim Berners-Lee Technology Quotations

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

You affect the world by what you browse.

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

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

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.

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

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%!

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.

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.

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.

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.