Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable.

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

We've never been anti-permanence. We just belief deletion should be the default.

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper.

Apple knows a lot of data. Facebook knows a lot of data. Amazon knows a lot of data. Microsoft used to, and still does with some people, but in the newer world, Microsoft knows less and less about me. Xbox still knows a lot about people who play games. But those are the big five, I guess.

It's so cheap to store all data. It's cheaper to keep it than to delete it. And that means people will change their behavior because they know anything they say online can be used against them in the future.

Google doesn't really forget.

So we should preserve it. I don't think that digital storage is necessarily a good thing, but I definitely think that digital manipulation is interesting.

A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.

The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is likely to be stored and accessible. Forever.

Dropbox sweats the user experience details as commendably as it masters the considerable engineering challenges required to reliably sync files everywhere a user may need them.

With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to resurface when we least expect it. Yes, everything you do in the digital realm may as well be broadcast on prime-time television and chiseled on the side of the Parthenon.

We face two overlapping challenges. The first concerns real-time court-ordered interception of what we call 'data in motion,' such as phone calls, e-mail, and live chat sessions. The second challenge concerns court-ordered access to data stored on our devices, such as e-mail, text messages, photos, and videos - or what we call 'data at rest.'

It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.

Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.

People should think about e-mail as something where they are archiving their lives.