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.”

“The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.”

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

“Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond...”

“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.”

“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 li...”

“Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.”

“I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.”

“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 i...”

“The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first wo...”

“Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.”

“The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.”

“The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.”

“Things can change so fast on the internet.”

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

“I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.”

“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 o...”

“My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have be...”

“The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.”

“Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.”