"The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly."
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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."
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"The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine."
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"Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make."
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"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."
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"The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy."
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"The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people."
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"I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other."
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"In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it."
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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."
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"We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges."
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"It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right. That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of web users regardless of where they live."
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"I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit."
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"When you understand things, there's no more magic."
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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."
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"The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else."
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"To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things."
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"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?""
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"Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems."
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"Acceptance is the spiritual hammock."
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