Reid Hoffman Quotes

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

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

For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser.

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 ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape.

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

We're actually helping advance HTML5 in some very concrete ways, such as Edge, which is in beta.

I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done.

Flash and HTML have co-existed, and they're going to continue to co-exist.

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

When Netscape failed, it didn't mean the Internet was over.

I taught myself HTML.

We had just gotten the Internet; it was so slow, but I would view the source code, copying and pasting the HTML, trying to figure out how it all worked. I had no idea, but I wanted to teach myself.

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.

Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat.

Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.

I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard. I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I'd grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. My blind spot at Apple prevented me from making HyperCard the first Web browser.

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.

The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could use it, and her grandchildren could use it. The second thing that Netscape did was commercialize a set of open transmission protocols so that no company could own the Net.

The Internet produces new business models and also reinvents traditional business models.

Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.

I just became one with my browser software.

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.