Robert Cailliau Quotes

• When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

  Robert Cailliau

  Recovery, Data, Humanity

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• What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know today - you see some blue underlined word and you click on it and it takes you somewhere else. That's the simplest definition of hypertext.

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  Blue, Somewhere Else, Giving

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• Since the web is totally worldwide, we need a set of behavioural rules, laws they are commonly called, that are accepted worldwide. There is a big difference as to how things are treated in the U.S. and Europe and Asia.

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  Europe, Law, Differences

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• At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.

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  World, Cern, World Wide Web

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• Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.

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  Character, Color, Green

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• En realidad, la Web es la unión de tres tecnologías: el hipertexto, el ordenador personal y la red. Teníamos la red y los ordenadores personales, pero la gente no los utilizaba porque no sabían para qué, excepto para algunos juegos.

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  Tecnología, Juegos, Personas

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• We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

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  Names, Lines, One Line

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• If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace.

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  Want, Impossible, Accounts

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• There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.

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  Community, Would Be, Alternatives

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• I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.

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  Pay, Economics, Minutes

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• To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.

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  Numbers, Google, Surprise

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• The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don't want that on the Net. But most on-line information providers need to attract advertising - which slows download times and clutters the screen with windows.

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  Needs, Useless, Lines

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• Si operas una emisora de radio o televisión, tienes que tener una licencia. No tiene nada que ver con la libertad fundamental. Tiene que ver con la protección del ciudadano medio contra los abusos.

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  Average, Abuse, Citizens

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