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
issues intellectual important
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.
ideas clue universality
That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
internet ifs amount
The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.
independent choices looks
I should be able to pick which applications I use for managing my life, I should be able to pick which content I look at, and I should be able to pick which device I use, which company I use for supplying my internet, and I'd like those to be independent choices.
internet
Things can change so fast on the internet.
mind world damage
I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.
dedication people world
I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.
wall doors giving
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.
important fancy information
We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.
reading labels littles
Anyone who slaps a "this page is best viewed with Browser X" label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.
humanity optimist
I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
problem ifs
If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.
growing-up people way
In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.
mistake technology blame
We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.