"Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space."
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"I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues."
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"Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split."
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"Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future."
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"I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways."
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"I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they’ve got a wonderful long-term plan."
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"I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose."
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"What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring."
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"People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!"
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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."
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"My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important."
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"Cool URIs don't change"
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"Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet."
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"The Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going to end in the U.S.A. If we had a situation in which the U.S. had serious flaws in its Net Neutrality, and Europe did have Net Neutrality, and I were trying to start a company, then I would be very tempted to move."
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"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."
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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."
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"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."
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"It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea."
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"The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space."
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"On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable."
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