183 Quotes by Tim Berners-Lee

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 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.

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.

The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.

Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.

I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.

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

Microsoft said recently that nearly 50 percent of people need to make some sort of adjustment to their system to interact with it.