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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Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

Tim Berners-Lee

You affect the world by what you browse.

Tim Berners-Lee

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

Tim Berners-Lee

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

Tim Berners-Lee

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.

Tim Berners-Lee

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

Tim Berners-Lee

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

Tim Berners-Lee

One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second...

Tim Berners-Lee

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

Tim Berners-Lee

When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?

Tim Berners-Lee

Things can change so fast on the internet.

Tim Berners-Lee

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.

Tim Berners-Lee

We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.

Tim Berners-Lee

The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.

Tim Berners-Lee

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

Tim Berners-Lee

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

Tim Berners-Lee

I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.

Tim Berners-Lee

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

Tim Berners-Lee

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obvio...

Tim Berners-Lee

The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.

Tim Berners-Lee

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.

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