Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.

My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

Every day I'm thinking about change.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

If it works, it's obsolete.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

We live in a quickly changing world, therefore we must foretell developments, and reforms should respond to these changes

People change all the time.

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

Change is an opportunity for everybody to think.

I get asked all the time, What do you do differently than 10 years ago, or what will you do differently in the years to come?' In the years to come, I have no idea.

The people of California really like innovation.

This innovation machine that's evolution, we can use it to do all sorts of interesting things.

I think time has changed everything. Not only music but our surroundings, technology, fashion - everything has changed with time, and it will keep changing every day.