Latest Tim Berners-Lee Quotes from Interviews

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• E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Interesting, Mail

  "developerWorks Interviews" with cott Laningham, www.ibm.com. August 22, 2006.

• I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  "developerWorks Interviews" with Scott Laningham, www.ibm.com. August 22, 2006.

• The nice thing about programming at the RDF level is that you can just say, I'll ask for all the books. You can ask for all the shelves. You can ask for a given shelf whether a book was on it. And you're not worrying so much about the underlying syntax.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Nice, Book, Worry

  Interview with Scott Laningham, www.ibm.com. August 22, 2006.

• We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Thinking, Important Values, Needs

  Interview with Scott Laningham, www.ibm.com. August 22, 2006.