George Osborne Quotes

I invented the Internet.

At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

Choosing a single most important development is incredibly hard to do because a lot of different things had to happen before the Internet could be deployed in the fashion it is today.

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

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.

The Internet is an amazing development.

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

The Internet is amazing.

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

The Internet never ceases to impress me.

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

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

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

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

TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.

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.

Berners-Lee started the World Wide Web as a set of protocols for transferring, linking and addressing documents to send over the Net. Without the global reach and open technical standards of the Internet, the Web could never have proliferated as it did.

The government invented the Internet.

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.