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
beauty business technology
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
technology thinking people
People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!
technology space able
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
taken technology people
If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!
responsibility technology done
Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.
technology people innovation
Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.
technology media issues
We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.
sex technology legends
Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.
mistake technology blame
We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.
technology world old-technology
You affect the world by what you browse.
technology past bigger
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
technology thinking growth
It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.
access allow guarantee people talk
On the Web, you can allow people to talk to each other, but you have to guarantee that they know who's going to have access to the conversation.
cells brain neurons
There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected.