Tim Berners-Lee

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.

The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.

Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.

One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.

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.

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

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

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

The Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . 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 to end in the U.S.A. If we had a situation in which the U.S. had serious flaws in its Net Neutrality, and Europe did have Net Neutrality, and I were trying to start a company, then I would be very tempted to move.

I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

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.

What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.

I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they’ve got a wonderful long-term plan.

The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.

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

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.

If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!