183 Quotes by Tim Berners-Lee

A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.

It's possible to live without the Web. It's not possible to live without water. But if you've got water, then the difference between somebody who is connected to the Web and is part of the information society, and someone who (is not) is growing bigger and bigger.

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.

If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.

Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.