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"Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems."
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"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."

"Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health."

"They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could have made better time with a horse."

"Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood."

"He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further."

"As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership."

"Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us."

"Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains."

"Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression."

"There are as many opinions as there are experts."
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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."


"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."


"Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases."


"Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on."


"The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large."


"When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last."


"The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it."


"Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split."
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