“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... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.”
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“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“When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.”
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“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“The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.”
Tim Berners-Lee