"What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do."
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Tim Berners-Lee quotes (page 6 of 7)
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"Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText."
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"It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I'm getting in return."
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"E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it."
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"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."
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"In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted."
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"I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years."
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"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."
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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."
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"Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy."
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"There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look at how people and the web combine as a whole - until now."
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"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."
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"I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work."
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"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."
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"[With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning."
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"Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them."
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"Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze."
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"Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together."
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"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."
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"The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies."
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