#web

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#elegant #foundation #literature #logical #once

Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#began #cafe #called #chatting #column

I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#developed #folklore #i #project #public

I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#different #different ways #fan #giving #i

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#communicate #idea #information #original #original idea

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#clue #i #idea #insisted #only

There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on "Friends" is. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#argue #because #character #favorite #friends

Most sites need to prevent breadth — many many pages that are organized cohesively. A site that presents a single webpage is unlikely to present sufficient depth of content to justify extensive SEO.” The SCO trick is to draw traffic with desirable content, and to ’seduce’ the traffic into portions of the site that may not directly have anything to do with the content — this is the ultimate goal of the SEO campaign. ↗

— Harold Davis

#design

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#call #comes #content #defines #fits

We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#attempting #citizenship #doing #downloaded #had