This Is for Everyone Quotes

“sharing this information in a smart way would liberate it. Why is your smartwatch writing your biological data to one invisible silo in one format? Why is your credit card writing your financial data to a second silo in a different format?”
― Tim Berners-Lee, This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web

“As Richard Dawkins points out, religions tend to get the adolescent to commit to their faith just a moment before they have the level of rational thought to be able to see through the whole thing.”
― Tim Berners-Lee, This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web

“he explained harmony as ‘Mr Strover’s Gearbox’. His gearbox diagram was always on the classroom wall: it was a set of overlapping three-letter gears, each representing a simple three-note chord. You could start in the ‘CEG’ slot, playing the C major chord, then connect that ‘gear’ via the G major chord in the ‘GBD’ slot above it. (This, in turn, connected to the higher D major gear of ‘DF#A’.) Mr Strover got us to hear what it was like to move up a gear, and down a gear, and he pointed out that a lot of songs just stayed in three gears, including much of the pop music repertoire. Thank you, Mr Strover, for your gearbox.”
― Tim Berners-Lee, This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web

“Infocom, publisher of the legendary computer game Zork, worked under Michael Dertouzos”
― Tim Berners-Lee, This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web

“On this same visit, I first met Ted Nelson – the one who had coined the term ‘hypertext’. Ted was an eccentric, wide-eyed dreamer who lived on a houseboat in Sausalito, just north of the Golden Gate bridge. His 1983 book, Literary Machines, was an eclectic, non-sequential rant with some very specific ideas about the systems we should be using.”
― Tim Berners-Lee, This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web

“felt a pop in my back – the pain was miraculously gone! I attribute this cure to a totally unconscious change in my posture: the ‘alpha’ stance of a primate ready for combat, standing tall with my shoulders back, attempting to appear imposing.”
― Tim Berners-Lee, This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web

“urban planners like Le Corbusier designed ‘rational’ cities,”
― Tim Berners-Lee, This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web

“Clapham Junction.”
― Tim Berners-Lee, This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web

“1988, I was struck by the idea of combining two pre-existing computer technologies into a single platform. The first technology was the internet, which is a protocol for connecting computers; you’ve probably heard of it. The second technology was hypertext, which takes an ordinary document – like a technical manual, or a diary entry – and brings it to life by adding ‘links’. My idea was that these hypertext links could provide a simple way for users to navigate the internet.”
― Tim Berners-Lee, This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web