Baptiste Coulange

“I had argued that it was ridiculous for a person to have two separate interfaces, one for local information (the desktop of their own computer) and one for remote information (a browser to reach other computers). Why did we need an entire desktop for our own computer but get only a window through which to view the entire rest of the planet? Why, for that matter, should we have folders on our desktop but not on the web?”
― Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web

“In an extreme view, the world can be seen as only connections, nothing else. We think of a dictionary as the repository of meaning, but it defines words only in terms of other words. I liked the idea that a piece of information is really defined only by what it's related to, and how it's related. There really is little else to meaning. The structure is everything. There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected.”
― Tim Berners-Lee

“I found myself answering the same questions asked frequently of me by different people. It would be so much easier if everyone could just read my database.”
― Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web

“Most of systems still depended on some central node to which everything had to be connected [...]. I wanted the act of adding a link to be trivial. If i was, then a web of links could spread evenly across the globe.”
― Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web