Cool URIs don't change

Celebrity damages private life.

Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.

You affect the world by what you browse.

Things can change so fast on the internet.

When you understand things, there's no more magic.

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

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

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

The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.

The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.

A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

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

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

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

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

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

E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.

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

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

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

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

It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.

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

The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.

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

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

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.

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

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

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.

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

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

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!

AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.

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

I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

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

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

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

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

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.

The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.

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

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