Quotes from Tim Berners-Lee

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

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

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.

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

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

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.

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.

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.

I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to my insurance company and I'm going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they've figured I'm looking at those books.

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

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

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

You affect the world by what you browse.

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

Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.

What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.

Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.

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.

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.

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

Celebrity damages private life.

I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.

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