Top 71 Quotes by Tim Berners-Lee

It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.

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

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

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

I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.