"In providing a system for manipulating this sort of information, the hope would be to allow a pool of information to develop which could grow and evolve with the organisation and the projects it describes. For this to be possible, the method of storage must not place its own restraints on the information." (Tim Berners-Lee, "Information Management: A Proposal", 1989)
"Non-centralisation: Information systems start small and grow. They also start isolated and then merge. A new system must allow existing systems to be linked together without requiring any central control or coordination." (Tim Berners-Lee, "Information Management: A Proposal", 1989)
"The actual observed working structure of the organisation is a multiply connected 'web' whose interconnections evolve with time." (Tim Berners-Lee, "Information Management: A Proposal", 1989)
"This is why a 'web' of notes with links (like references) between them is far more useful than a fixed hierarchical system. When describing a complex system, many people resort to diagrams with circles and arrows. Circles and arrows leave one free to describe the interrelationships between things in a way that tables, for example, do not. The system we need is like a diagram of circles and arrows, where circles and arrows can stand for anything." (Tim Berners-Lee, "Information Management: A Proposal", 1989)
"We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities. The aim would be to allow a place to be found for any information or reference which one felt was important, and a way of finding it afterwards. The result should be sufficiently attractive to use that it the information contained would grow past a critical threshold, so that the usefulness the scheme would in turn encourage its increased use." (Tim Berners-Lee, "Information Management: A Proposal", 1989)
"A computer typically keeps information in rigid hierarchies and matrices, whereas the human mind has the special ability to link random bits of data." (Tim Berners-Lee, "Weaving the Web", 1999)
"An intriguing possibility, given a large hypertext database with typed links, is that it allows some degree of automatic analysis. [ . . . ] Imagine making a large three-dimensional model, with people represented by little spheres, and strings between people who have something in common at work. Now imagine picking up the structure and shaking it, until you make some sense of the tangle: Perhaps you see tightly knit groups in some places, and in some places weak areas of communication spanned by only a few people. Perhaps a linked information system will allow us to see the real structure of the organization in which we work." (Tim Berners-Lee, "Weaving the Web", 1999)
"I have a dream for the Web [...] and it has two parts. In the first part, the Web becomes a much more powerful means for collaboration between people. I have always imagine the information space as something to which everyone has immediate and intuitive access, and not just to browse, but to create. Furthermore, the dream of people-to-people communication through shared knowledge must be possible for groups of all sizes, interacting electronically with as much ease as they do now in person." (Tim Berners-Lee, "Weaving the Web", 1999)
"The first form of semantic data on the Web was metadata information about information. (There happens to be a company called Metadata, but I use the term here as a generic noun, as it has been used for many years.) Metadata consist of a set of properties of a document. By definition, metadata are data, as well as data about data. They describe catalogue information about who wrote Web pages and what they are about; information about how Web pages fit together and relate to each other as versions; translations, and reformattings; and social information such as distribution rights and privacy codes." (Tim Berners-Lee, "Weaving the Web", 1999)
"The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our web-like existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner." (Tim Berners-Lee, "Weaving the Web", 1999)
"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." (Tim Berners-Lee, "Weaving the Web", 1999)
"The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation." (Tim Berners-Lee et al, "The Semantic Web", Scientific American, 2001)
"The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people." (Tim Berners-Lee, [speech] 2008)
"If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along." (Tim Berners-Lee, [interview])
"One of the powerful things about networking technology like the Internet or the Web or the Semantic Web [...] is that the things we've just done with them far surpass the imagination of the people who invented them." (Tim Berners-Lee)
"The first step is putting data on the Web in a form that machines can naturally understand, or converting it to that form. This creates what I call a Semantic Web-a web of data that can be processed directly or indirectly by machines." (Tim Berners-Lee)
"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect." (Tim Berners-Lee)
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