"I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to my insurance company and I'm going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they've figured I'm looking at those books."

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Source: Donald Knuth, Grady Booch, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, Vint Cerf (2011). “Leaders in Computing: Changing the Digital World”, p.44, BCS, The Chartered Institute

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Tim Berners-Lee

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Tim Berners-Lee is a computer scientist best known for inventing the World Wide Web, revolutionizing how we access and share information globally.

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