Zitat des Tages von Tim Berners-Lee:
We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.
Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.
Celebrity damages private life.
When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.
I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.
I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.
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.
One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.
Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.
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.
The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.
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.
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.
I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.
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.
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.
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.
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
You affect the world by what you browse.
When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
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.
What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.
I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.
Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.
I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.
It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.
I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
