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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.

— 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.

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.

I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da!— the World Wide Web.

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