Ed Lee Quotes

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.

I tend not to analyse my work, though I'm frequently intrigued when other people take time to do so.

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.

The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.

Pirates have always fascinated me.

Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.

I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.' Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying.

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.

It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.

Things can change so fast on the internet.

On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.

The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies.

What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.

We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.

I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.

As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.

E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.

AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.

It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I'm getting in return.

Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

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.

If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.

I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze.

Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.

[With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning.

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.

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.

It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years.

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

I'm not Superman. I can't handle all of these women.

I don't have a problem with my temper.

When I'm single, I'm one guy, and when I'm in a relationship I'm totally another. They're both a good time.

Imagine how frustrating it is, being completely locked up and watching your family leave, your wife and children, and not being able to do anything about it.

I lived up on Kanan and Mulholland. It's a bit of a drive, but once you get there, the horses, vineyards, it's just so peaceful.

Obviously, I'm a little more responsible these days.