Tim Berners-Lee Ideas Quotations

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

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.

I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.

It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.