What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.
Tim Berners-LeeThere are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look at how people and the web combine as a whole - until now.
Tim Berners-LeeIf I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!
Tim Berners-LeeI basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
Tim Berners-Lee