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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

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Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems. ↗

— 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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Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

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Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

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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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Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on. ↗

— 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

#grow #infrastructure #larger #larger companies #market