Top 71 Quotes by Tim Berners-Lee

About Tim Berners-Lee

These are some quotes by English author Tim Berners-Lee Inventor, who was born on June 8, 1955.

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

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

Tim Berners-Lee

If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.

If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.

Tim Berners-Lee

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

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

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

Tim Berners-Lee

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

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

Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.

Tim Berners-Lee

I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.

I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.

Tim Berners-Lee

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.

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.

Tim Berners-Lee

One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.

Tim Berners-Lee

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.

Tim Berners-Lee

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