Inventor Quotes

The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.

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

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

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

Celebrity damages private life.

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.

Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.

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

You affect the world by what you browse.

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.

One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.

On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

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

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.