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The Web is a canvas that you can draw wonderful things on.

TIM BERNERS-LEE

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The point about the Web is it’s a platform. It should be, for the next generation, for the people who are students now, for people who are children now, they should find that the Web is a canvas that they can draw wonderful things on. If somebody asks me, “OK, so what’s going to be the result in 10 years? What do you imagine is going to be the result in 10 years if this all works out?” And the answer is, well, my imagination ought not to be a gauging factor. If we in the end of 10 years produced everything I can imagine, we have failed. The idea is to produce everything other people can imagine. (From the speech held before the Knight Foundation on 14 September 2008,
http://www.webfoundation.org/about/community/transcript-of-tim-berners-lee-video)
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