Quotes from 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.

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 independent choices.

I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.

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.

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.

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

The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.

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

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

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

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

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

It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.

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.

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 a human right to connect.

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. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.

The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.

If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.

Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.

On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.

The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.

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