Quotes from Tim Berners-Lee

Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.

One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.

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.

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy.

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.

The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.

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.

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

We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

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

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

Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.

[With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning.