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The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our web-like existence in the world. We clump into family, association, and companies.

— Tim Berners-Lee

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The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.

When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

In an extreme view, the world can be seen as only connections, nothing else.

Weaving the Web (1999)

We’ve lost a fighter. We’ve lost somebody who put huge energy into righting wrongs.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

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