183 Quotes by Tim Berners-Lee

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.

I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.