#t

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#beasts #demons #heroic #i #like

People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#beings #dead #get #gods #heads

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you. ↗

— Robert Collier

#make #then #things #things happen #will

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. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#being #celebrity #context #damages #i

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. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#because #books #cancer #company #figured

One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#advances #answers #available #before #business

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. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#back #being #certain #control #customers

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#computers #cooperation #current #enabling #extension

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#change #consequently #continual #created #each

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#could #difficult #every #flavor #had