Inventor Quotes

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

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.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

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.

If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.

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.

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.

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

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 think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

I should be able to pick which applications I use for managing my life, I should be able to pick which content I look at, and I should be able to pick which device I use, which company I use for supplying my internet, and I'd like those to be independent choices.

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.

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

I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

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.

Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.