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Type: Inventor Quotes Category: English Inventor Quotes Date of Birth: June 8, 1955 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Tim Berners-Lee Related Authors: John Harrison Frank Whittle George Stephenson John Ambrose Fleming Rowland Hill Isaac Pitman Colin Chapman |
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
Tim Berners-Lee 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 Celebrity damages private life. Tim Berners-Lee Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly. Tim Berners-Lee 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 Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves. Tim Berners-Lee Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split. Tim Berners-Lee I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other. 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. Tim Berners-Lee 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. Tim Berners-Lee Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on. Tim Berners-Lee IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device. Tim Berners-Lee Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free. Tim Berners-Lee Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems. Tim Berners-Lee Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space. 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. Tim Berners-Lee The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world. Tim Berners-Lee The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly. Tim Berners-Lee 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. Tim Berners-Lee The important thing is the diversity available on the Web. Tim Berners-Lee The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device. Tim Berners-Lee 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. Tim Berners-Lee 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 The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large. Tim Berners-Lee 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 We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on. Tim Berners-Lee Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases. Tim Berners-Lee 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 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 Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information. Tim Berners-Lee When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last. Tim Berners-Lee You affect the world by what you browse. Tim Berners-Lee |
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