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“Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document w...”
“Cool URIs don't change”
“It is the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years.”
“I don't mind there being biased information out there. The important thing is that you should know, when you're on the web, whether you're looking at biased information or not.”
“The question, when it's posed like that, it implies that you really only measure people's value by their net worth. People are what they've done, what they say, what they stand for, rather than wha...”
“When you go out there, the webpages you see are written by people. You're looking at a certain sub-set of the churning mass of humanity out there. So it's not that the web itself is an animal, but ...”
“Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.”
“When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA. … Democracy depends on fr...”
“The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.”
“What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.”
“The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.”
“This is for everyone”
“We’ve lost a fighter. We’ve lost somebody who put huge energy into righting wrongs. There are people around the world who take it on themselves to just try to fix the world but very few of them do ...”
“Aaron is dead. Wanderers in this crazy world, we have lost a mentor, a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down, we have lost one of our own. Nurtures, careers, listeners, feeders, parents al...”
“When somebody has learned how to program a computer … You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.”
“This snoopers charter has no place in a modern democracy - it undermines our fundamental rights online. The bulk collection of everyone's internet browsing data is disproportionate, creates a secur...”
“The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people work together — and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and...”
“At CERN there was a credo meant to avoid unnecessary labors, it said that when acquiring new technology: Buy, Don't Build. There were several commercial hypertext editors and I thought we could jus...”
“In an extreme view, the world can be seen as only connections, nothing else. We think of a dictionary as the repository of meaning, but it defines words only in terms of other words. I liked the id...”
“You can have a lot of fun in a New York minute.But there's some things you can't do inside those city limits.Ain't no closing time, ain't no cover charge.Just country boys and girls gettin' down on...”
