Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.

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

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.

We didn't even have email when I was in college.

When I was at MIT, they had a beta test of Mosaic, the first popular browser. I remember looking at it, and there was a weather map or something. Now, in fairness to me, there weren't any websites then. But I remember saying, 'This is stupid - what's the point?' Now, of course, it's obvious.

Advances in technology and the Internet have dramatically changed the way we communicate, live, and work.

The Internet is amazing.

When I was growing up, I had three channels, and I didn't know what happened in the Philippines instantly if it happened. Now you can be on the Internet and find out what's going on in Zimbabwe. It's changed.

I remember being given a demo of the 'World Wide Web' at Peter Gabriel's studio in the early 90s, and I had zero comprehension that I was staring into the future. I was just happy with my pager and teletext on the TV.

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

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

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.

The Internet is one of the biggest advances ever in our world.

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

The internet is a great way to get on the net.

You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.

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

I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

The great growling engine of change - technology.