Berners-Lee, Tim Filmography

• London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy
  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself, inventor of the World Wide Web

Famous quotes by Tim Berners-Lee:

"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."

"You affect the world by what you browse."

"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 is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice."

"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network."

"If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write 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."

"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."

"They may call it a home page, but it's more like the gnome in somebody's front yard than the home itself."

"We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges."

"Celebrity damages private life."

"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."

"Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves."

"Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly."

"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."

"I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues."

"The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large."

"The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world."

"IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device."

"The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things."