Quotes By Tim Berners Lee

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

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

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.

Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.

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

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

The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.

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

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

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.

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