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It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years.

I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

Cool URIs don't change

You can't propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.

Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.

AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.

Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

[With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning.

Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project

As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.

If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

It's the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.

Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.

When you understand things, there's no more magic,

The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.

When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

I invented the Web just because I needed it, really, because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.

Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.

E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.

I would have to create a system with common rules that would be acceptable to everyone. That meant as close as possible to no rules at all.

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.

If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!

The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.

You affect the world by what you browse.

The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.

The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

Things can change so fast on the internet.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.

A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.

The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our web-like existence in the world . We clump into family , association, and companies.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.

I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect,

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.

Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.

The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.