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

Celebrity damages private life.

— Tim Berners-Lee

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

— Tim Berners-Lee

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.

— Tim Berners-Lee

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

— Tim Berners-Lee

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.

— Tim Berners-Lee

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

— Tim Berners-Lee

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

— Tim Berners-Lee

The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.

— Tim Berners-Lee

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

— Tim Berners-Lee