Quotes About The World Wide Web

#1. I believe that the World Wide Web is, as a matter of fact, the noogenesis of the noosphere of the future. This is it!

Ralph Abraham

#2. We have visited the world wide web,' the king said. 'We know about the stoplight. The changes have begun. You are lying to us.

Faith McKay

#3. It is my belief that one of the most exciting things about the World Wide Web is that they allow minds, as Spock might say, to meld. The transfer of consciousness through a variety of mediums is nothing new.

Frederick Lenz

#4. [The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter

Richard Dawkins

#5. The World Wide Web is woven together out of threads of glass.

Steven Johnson

#6. The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.

Tim Berners-Lee

#7. Goals do not get stored in your voice message or email bin. They are not going to reach out from the world wide web and remind you they exist. As a result, our goals do not get the respect they deserve.

Darren L Johnson

#8. Sex has changed drastically over the years due to technology. The World Wide Web has boosted the sex market and made sex ever present. No one has to work hard anymore with sexting, Tango, Skype, and all the other ways you can initiate sex without ever even suckling on my damn nipple!

Sanjo Jendayi

#9. Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

#10. If there is no fundamental science then there is no basis for applied science. We have to strike a balance. 23 years ago the World Wide Web was born here. It has changed the world dramatically.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#11. First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

Douglas Adams

#12. When Tim Berners-Lee invented the computer code that led to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1990, he did not try to patent or charge fees for the use of his technology.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#13. The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

Jon Postel

#14. What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

Ted Nelson

#15. The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines.

Lionel Barber

#16. The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT - ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management.

Ted Nelson

#17. Thirdly, as we move through this process of integrating the communications, we will begin to emulate more of the World Wide Web in our work in the future.

Stephen Cambone

#18. Berners-Lee started the World Wide Web as a set of protocols for transferring, linking and addressing documents to send over the Net. Without the global reach and open technical standards of the Internet, the Web could never have proliferated as it did.

Katie Hafner

#19. His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

John McCarthy

#20. I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

Tim Berners-Lee

#21. If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.

Feng Zhang

#22. My percussionist boyfriend graduated and went away to grad school a few semesters later, but not before he introduced me to the most amazing thing I'd ever experienced. No, not sex (I'm a lady; I don't write about that) but something just as good: the World Wide Web. It

Felicia Day

#23. I'm making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web.

Matthew Perry

#24. It's not the world wide web. It's the women wide web.

Tiffany Shlain

#25. I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.

Gloria Steinem

#26. For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.

Seth Lloyd

#27. At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.

Robert Cailliau

#28. This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

Neal Stephenson

#29. Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and the World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

Walter Isaacson

#30. Britain helped create the Internet - Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web, one of a long line of British scientists who have given us an outsized role in shaping our own digital future.

George Osborne

#31. The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#32. Today, only about 1% of the World Wide Web is written in Arabic.

Marissa Mayer

#33. The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

Bill Gates

#34. Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

Clifford Stoll

#35. The dangerous charm of GPC was that everything in the world could be called up; if you didn't look out, a couple of sessions might turn you from a serious enquirer into a mere gape-mouthed browser.

Julian Barnes

#36. My dear Prue, we are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos. It is a hopeless task.

Colin Meloy

#37. I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer market of Web use

Dave Barry

#38. People who have so much of their personality invested in the Internet can't really survive as whole individuals without it.

Mark A. Rayner

#39. If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.

Tim Berners-Lee

#40. If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody.

Clifford Stoll

#41. If my generation is remembered for anything, it will be as the last one that remembers the world before the Internet.

Lev Grossman

#42. We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.

Colin Meloy