183 Quotes by Tim Berners-Lee

The recommended strategy is to employ 'smart' buying practices to reduce acquisition and support costs, including software asset management, and increase the use of standards-compliant software,'

The original idea of the Web was about supporting the way people already work socially, but this doesn't happen with a lot of IT projects.

There could still be a huge battle which leaves a big mess and fragments the Web into two pieces whenever a new feature comes along.

There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected.

On the Web, you can allow people to talk to each other, but you have to guarantee that they know who's going to have access to the conversation.

E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.

The nice thing about programming at the RDF level is that you can just say, I'll ask for all the books. You can ask for all the shelves. You can ask for a given shelf whether a book was on it. And you're not worrying so much about the underlying syntax.

We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"

I think in general it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings, and the Web's a form of communications, so it generally should be good.