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 should be able to pick which applications I use for managing my life, I should be able to pick which content I look at, and I should be able to pick which device I use, which company I use for supplying my internet, and I'd like those to be indepen...

Tim Berners-Lee

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

Tim Berners-Lee

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

Tim Berners-Lee

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.

Tim Berners-Lee

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.

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.

Tim Berners-Lee

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

Tim Berners-Lee

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

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