Quotes by Tim Berners-Lee

About Tim Berners-Lee:

Sir Timothy John is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year.
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I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

Tim Berners-Lee

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

Tim Berners-Lee

It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.

Tim Berners-Lee

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

Tim Berners-Lee

The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.

Tim Berners-Lee

The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

Tim Berners-Lee

When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.

Tim Berners-Lee

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

Tim Berners-Lee

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

Tim Berners-Lee

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

Tim Berners-Lee

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.

Tim Berners-Lee

Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.

Tim Berners-Lee

Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this a...

Tim Berners-Lee

The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about...

Tim Berners-Lee

Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.

Tim Berners-Lee

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

Tim Berners-Lee

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.

Tim Berners-Lee

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

Tim Berners-Lee

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

Tim Berners-Lee

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

Tim Berners-Lee

Author Bio

  • NameTim Berners-Lee
  • DescriptionBritish computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web
  • AliasesTimBL; Sir Tim Berners-Lee; Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA; Timothy John Berners-Lee; TBL
  • BornJune 8, 1955
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionComputer Scientist; Physicist; Programmer
  • AwardsPrix Ars Electronica; W. Wallace McDowell Award; Eduard-Rhein Technology Award; MacArthur Fellows Program; Japan Prize; Millennium Technology Prize; Quadriga; Charles Stark Draper Prize; Queen Elizabeth Prize For Engineering; Knight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Fellow Of The Royal Society; UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal; Royal Medal; Mountbatten Medal; Princess Of Asturias Award - Technical And Scientific Research; EFF Pioneer Award