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
Tim Berners-Lee quotes about
dont-change
Cool URIs don't change
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.
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%!
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 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.
lasts professionalism standards
When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.
information use should
Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.
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.
damage private-life
Celebrity damages private life.
nice book worry
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.
computers promote reflect web
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.
designed future net people run
The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.
The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.