Robert Cailliau Quotes

I would have volunteered to work at Netscape. It was the center node of this new technology and the commercial ecosystem of the Internet.

Britain helped create the Internet - Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web, one of a long line of British scientists who have given us an outsized role in shaping our own digital future.

I invented the Internet.

The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready.

If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

The Internet is an amazing development.

The Internet has become important on the world's stage.

Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, who have been talking to my cat on the Internet.

The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives.

I don't understand the interweb.

The Internet didn't become usable until Netscape because that gave the average person a user interface that was intuitive, simple, friendly - this made it accessible.

The Internet is amazing.

The Internet, as a platform, I think is really fantastic.

The Internet never ceases to impress me.

The Internet wasn't useful until some basic infrastructure was built.

This Internet stuff is definitely not my future.

Invented the #hashtag.

The current days of the Internet will soon be over.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

I've been on the Web from the beginning of the Web. The good part about writing about technology is that you never run out of ideas, because it's changing so fast. The bad part is that it's changing so fast that there's a million new products and ideas every day and every week.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.

Tim Berners-Lee, the 44-year-old English physicist who created the World Wide Web, is precisely the kind of hero that a relatively simple invention with profound social and economic consequences should lay claim to. He is not just creative but democratic, diplomatic, polite and generous with credit and praise.

Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.