Tim Berners-Lee: Making

Tim Berners-Lee is British computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web. Explore interesting quotes on making.
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“You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.”

Tim Berners-Lee

From An Insight, An Idea with Tim Berners-Lee http://www.weforum.org/sessions/summary/insight-idea-tim-berners-lee at 27:27 (25 January 2013)
Context: 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.

People , Imagination

“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 security nightmare for the ISPs who must store the data - and rides roughshod over our right to privacy. Meanwhile, the bulk hacking powers in the Bill risk making the internet less safe for everyone”

Tim Berners-Lee

'Snoopers law creates security nightmare' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38134560 (29th November 2016)

Democracy

“Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.”

Tim Berners-Lee

Interview by Kris Herbst for Internet World (June 1994) http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html

“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.”

Tim Berners-Lee

Interview by Kris Herbst for Internet World (June 1994) http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html

Dreams , Time

“The trick… is to make sure that each limited mechanical part of the Web, each application, is within itself composed of simple parts that will never get too powerful.”

Tim Berners-Lee

Weaving the Web (1999)

Parting