Tim Quotes

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.

Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get.

I am not going to speculate about the emotions that might be involved in avian infidelity.

There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.

Real economic stimulus comes from real investment.

Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.

I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life.

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist.

I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.

I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters.

I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.

I feel apart from everything and a part of everything.

Because I'm dangerous. I don't mean to be but I am. I'm dangerous to be around, dangerous to everybody. I cause harm. I might even harm you. And I couldn't bear that.

I said i was dying not that i wanted to live”

I don’t need to ring anyone. I said I’m dying. I didn’t say I wanted to live.

Because we weren't having success finding a CEO, our investors insisted that we hire these managers a temporary CEO and CFO. That didn't go great.

...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.

It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.

For heavens sake, if you haven’t gotten comfy with Agile techniques and thinking, get on it right now.

First guitars tend to be like first loves: ill-chosen, unsuitable, short-lived and unforgettable.

Guitar makes even have a word for these baby-boomers-who-alwyas-wanted-to-be-great-guitarists-and-now-have-the-money-to-indulge-those-dreams: dentists

A Guitar Store Is The Only Place In The Known Universe Where A Guy Will Allow Himself To Shop Like A Woman

The Communist Party must be a revolutionary party our it will cease to be a Communist Party.

Canada's ruling circles seek to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire.

For a time I gave the appearance of defending Stalin. I didn't defend what he had done; the fact is, nobody could defend the things that Khrushchev revealed.

I try not to go back in retrospect and say oh, I shouldn't have done this or shouldn't have done that. You make your decisions and you live by them.

Once you get labeled, there's nothing you can do about it.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

That's why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.

I like actors who like to change and transform to other things.

It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to show my work at MoMA.' When you start to think those things, you're in trouble.

I don't have a dog, because I travel too much. I don't want to just leave it abandoned.

I always said that I'm not into mass-marketing things. If there's one thing that looks cool, that's fine by me. I'm not interested in a whole bunch of stuff.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.