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"We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal."
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"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
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"We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone."
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"I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill."
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"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."
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"But I said wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'what's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box,' and I bought it. That was my first computer."
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"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."
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"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
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"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'"
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"I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore."
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"Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted."
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"We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal."
Computer

"The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly."
Technology

"IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device."
Work

"We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on."
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"Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly."
Development

"In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it."
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"You affect the world by what you browse."
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"The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past."
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"The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device."
Information

"What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice."
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