The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.
— Tim Berners-Lee
Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.
The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.
Things can change so fast on the internet.
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.
Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
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.
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.
I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
Celebrity damages private life.
In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.
That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
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.
Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.
We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.
You affect the world by what you browse.
