Tim Berners-Lee

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.

I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.

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

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

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.

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.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

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

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.

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

What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.

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

It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.

The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.