Robert Cailliau Quotes

Robert Cailliau — Belgian Scientist born on January 26, 1947,

Robert Cailliau is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist. Cailliau helped Tim Berners-Lee develop the World Wide Web... (wikipedia)

I'm not on Twitter, nor Facebook, or LinkedIn, or any of these systems, because they suck in your soul and they will not let you go. Try to get out of any of them, and you will see. They are just like some religions where apostasy is punished by death.

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

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

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.

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.

Robert Cailliau Quotes

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