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

— Tim Berners-Lee

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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. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#between #communications #cultural #cultural issues #due

We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

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

— Tim Berners-Lee

#about #attractive #care #data #design

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

— Tim Berners-Lee

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The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#challenge #commercial #control #demonstrate #manage

The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

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We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

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Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing? ↗

— Tommy Lee

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I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files. ↗

— Wen Ho Lee

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