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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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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

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Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

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Celebrity damages private life. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

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Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free. ↗

— 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

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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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Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

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