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
thinking important-values looks
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?"
communication thinking way
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.
thinking issues people
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.
communication thinking issues
I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
thinking people get-involved
I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.
thinking goal way
[With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning.
powerful thinking would-be
One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.
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!
thinking issues people
On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.
thinking years ideas
I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.
thinking long people
I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they’ve got a wonderful long-term plan.
believe thinking ideas
I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.
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.