Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

Most competition in Silicon Valley now heads toward there being one monopolistic winner.

The only way you can stop the unregulated monopoly ... from gouging ... is to introduce competition.

The importance of supervising the business of great railways and industrial combinations and the necessary investigation and prosecution of unlawful business methods are another necessary tax upon Government which did not exist half a century ago.

The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.

Regulation is often a way to keep a dominant firm in place.

My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.

We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

Amazon is not a monopoly or a monopsony, and even if it were, that by itself isn't illegal.

Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies.

The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.

Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new.

Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.

Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.

Everybody agrees that you want competition. But you have to have rules of fair competition if you want to have competitors to enter the market.

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?

The only place you have real monopolies is where government provides them.

I do not expect monopoly to restrain itself.

There is more danger from monopolies than from combinations of workingmen [unions.]

Monopolies have good sides to them as well as bad sides to them.

The people were told in the last campaign that trusts [corporate monopolies] were a natural evolution, and that the only way to deal with them was to regulate them. The people are tired of being told such things. What they want is the kind of opportunity that formerly existed in this country.

The great issue before the American people today is the control of Government and industry by private monopoly.

I don’t like monopolies when I see them.

New Yorkers pay a price of untold millions to the great private monopolies every year an excessive price because these monopolies use their power to defeat effective regulation.-