Tim Berners-Lee

You affect the world by what you browse. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#affect #browse #world #you

Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#back #being #certain #control #customers

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#last #longer #precious #precious thing #systems

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#compiler #engineer #good #interchangeable #interpreter

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

— Tim Berners-Lee

#between #communications #cultural #cultural issues #due

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#create #however #physicists #scientists #systems

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. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#computers #cooperation #current #enabling #extension

We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#could #democratically #done #each #everything

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

#about #attractive #care #data #design

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. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#anyone #come #computer #dream #dreams