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The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.Tim BernersLee
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Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.Tim BernersLee
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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.Tim BernersLee
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I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.Tim BernersLee
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Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.Tim BernersLee
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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.Tim BernersLee
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The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.Tim BernersLee
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Celebrity damages private life.Tim BernersLee
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The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.Tim BernersLee
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It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.Tim BernersLee
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The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.Tim BernersLee
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When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.Tim BernersLee
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You affect the world by what you browse.Tim BernersLee
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The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.Tim BernersLee
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We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.Tim BernersLee
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Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.Tim BernersLee
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One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.Tim BernersLee