"WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project"

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Tim Berners-Lee

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“To demarcate [words in way that changes the meaning] is simply to speak a different language than everyone else. And I do not accept semantic games like that. [...] We need to use words as they are actually used and understood. We can correct errors and inconsistencies and make distinctions. But we can't try to foist an alien language on people.”
“Snoop Doggy Dogg paged, that must mean more hoes.”
“By looking at autistic kids, you can't tell when you're working with them who you're going to pull out, who is going to become verbal and who's not. And there seem to be certain kids who, as they learn more and more, they get less autistic acting, and they learn social skills enough so that they can turn out socially normal.”
“It's not that I don't like penises. I just don't like them on men.”
“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?”
“My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.”
“Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.”

Source : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey. Address at the Convocation of the University of British Columbia, May 18, 1954, 1959.
“The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.”

Source : Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.14, Verso

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