[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.
Tim Berners-LeeIntellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
Tim Berners-LeeI think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.
Tim Berners-LeeThe original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
Tim Berners-LeeThe Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going to end in the U.S.A. If we had a situation in which the U.S. had serious flaws in its Net Neutrality, and Europe did have Net Neutrality, and I were trying to start a company, then I would be very tempted to move.
Tim Berners-Lee