183 Quotes by Tim Berners-Lee

I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that’s not going to get to my insurance company and I’m going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they’ve figured I’m looking at those books.

In ’93 to ’94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect – to help people work together – and not as a technical toy.

It’s mine – you can’t have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I’m getting in return.

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.

When I invented the web, I didn’t have to ask anyone’s permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.

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

As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate – everywhere – about the web we want.

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?”