Tim Berners-Lee

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.

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.

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

You affect the world by what you browse.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.

It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

Celebrity damages private life.

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.

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.

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.

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

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.