Tim Berners-Lee Space Quotations

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space.

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.

The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.