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Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.

— 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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