“Users, in other words, must now operate within the hell of beautiful interfaces designed by experts.”— Kate Wagner, thebaffler.com
“I don't get what the big deal is with spiders. Why is everyone so scared of them? I got to know the spider living in the corner of my room. We talked about our dreams and goals, he wants to be a Web designer.”— GosuGian, reddit.com
“Net Neutrality allowed me to invent the web. If protections are scrapped, innovators will have to ask ISPs for permission to get their ideas out – a disaster for creativity. A disaster for the internet.”— Tim Berners-Lee, twitter.com
“I hope that Congress can protect net neutrality, so I can continue to innovate in the internet space. I want to see the explosion of innovations happening out there on the Web, so diverse and so exciting, continue unabated.”— Tim Berners-Lee, en.wikiquote.org
“The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people work together — and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We de…”— Tim Berners-Lee, amazon.com
“What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.”— Tim Berners-Lee, news.bbc.co.uk
“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 end in the USA. … Democracy depends on freedom of speech. Freedom of connection, with any application, to any party, is the fundamental social b…”— Tim Berners-Lee, en.wikiquote.org
“The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.”— Tim Berners-Lee, w3.org
“Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.”— Tim Berners-Lee, w3.org
“Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along.”— Tim Berners-Lee, ibm.com
“The fact that we're all connected, the fact that we've got this information space — does change the parameters. It changes the way people live and work. It changes things for good and for bad. But I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is g…”— Tim Berners-Lee, ibm.com
“The system is failing. The way ad revenue works with clickbait is not fulfilling the goal of helping humanity promote truth and democracy.”— Tim Berners-Lee, theguardian.com
“My girlfriend told me to take the spider out instead of killing it. We went and had some drinks. Cool guy. Wants to be a web developer.”— dream-hunter, reddit.com
“For people who have no Internet in the first place, the idea of net neutrality is not exactly top of mind. Getting online cheaply in the first place is a greater concern, and the American companies are often enabling that to happen. Internet access is expensive in developing countries—exorbitantly s…”— David Talbot, technologyreview.com
“But it turns out the only surefire way to make performant Web Stuff is also to just write less.”— Heydon Pickering, heydonworks.com
“A cache’s eviction policy tries to predict which entries are most likely to be used again in the near future, thereby maximizing the hit ratio. The Least Recently Used (LRU) policy is perhaps the most popular due to its simplicity, good runtime performance, and a decent hit rate in common workloads.”— High Scalability, highscalability.com
“To date, Facebook has only showed ads across its Audience Network to Facebook users, targeted based on information the company has collected about its users’ tastes and behaviors. Now Facebook plans to collect information about all Internet users, through “like” buttons and other pieces of code pres…”— Jack Marshall, wsj.com
“Looking back, we chuckle. We’re glad the Internet Wayback Machine hasn’t exposed the Angelfire or Geocities webpages of our past.”— Jason Winter, blog.invisionapp.com