Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Data is not necessarily information. Information does not necessarily lead to knowledge. And knowledge is not always sufficient to discover truth and breed wisdom.

The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before.

Data without generalization is just gossip.

Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything around them. The imagination is a discovering faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new.

Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.

The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.

I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles.

Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.

It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.

A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton’s thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the ‘discovery’ of the laws of gravity.

Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

Ideas come from curiosity.

Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

The more you know, the better you can imagine.