Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

With Android One, we not only want to help people get online, we want to make sure that when they get there, they can tap into the wealth of information and knowledge the web holds for everyone.

I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.

Technology produces a new division of haves and have nots.

At the very least, you must make the Internet free in areas that are poverty-stricken. Without the Internet and access to information, poverty-stricken households will never catch up to households above the poverty line - throwing the African-American community deeper into the stone ages.

I think that wireless has the opportunity to solve a whole bunch of problems, including I believe world poverty.

One thing I want to do is get Silicon Valley to think harder about those who have been left behind by the technology revolution. It has created huge winners for those who are able to understand it and are adept at it. But it has also displaced a tremendous number of jobs.

It's worrying to think more than half the world's population lacks internet access and therefore lacks an equal opportunity to improve their lives.

We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet.

Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.

We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority.

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.

A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a computer home.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.

Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.

And the more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere - a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer - can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

Governments should look at investment in broadband as a national priority on the grounds that having broadband access for virtually everyone creates opportunities for the development of the economy that wouldn't otherwise be available.

Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

The thing which attracted me to Google and to the Internet in general is that it's a great equalizer. I've always been struck by the fact that Google search worked the same, as long as you had access to a computer with connectivity, if you're a rural kid anywhere or a professor at Stanford or Harvard.

Our goal in life ought to be to extend this medium [the Internet] so that it is available to every man, woman and child in the country.

A world in which we can fully experience the benefits that a connected society brings remains out of reach. Vested interests all too often feel threatened by the modern world, and they are holding Scotland back. We want to change that.

I believe that interconnectivity is a human right.