Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.

The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.

Advances in technology and the Internet have dramatically changed the way we communicate, live, and work.

It is the Internet that changes: the Internet is not just a language; it modifies relationships, the way we look at the world.

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.

With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired-the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later.

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

The internet's completely over.

The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.

That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry. It broadcasted its message and everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy and actually restoring a more natural way.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.

The start of 2016 offers great promise as the world awakens to the power of connectivity and increasing digitization. The new Digital Age is upon us, and it is unlike anything we have experienced before.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.

Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution.

We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.