Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocolclient and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth8 June 1955
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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.
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I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
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E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.
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The nice thing about programming at the RDF level is that you can just say, I'll ask for all the books. You can ask for all the shelves. You can ask for a given shelf whether a book was on it. And you're not worrying so much about the underlying syntax.
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We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"
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I think in general it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings, and the Web's a form of communications, so it generally should be good.
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The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.
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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.
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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.
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There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look at how people and the web combine as a whole - until now.
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Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
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Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
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Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web.
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I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.