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June 8, 1955
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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

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