183 Quotes by Tim Berners-Lee

It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.

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

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.

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.

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.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

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.