Håkon Wium Lie

Håkon Wium Lie (born 1965) is a Norwegian web pioneer, a standards activist, and the chairman of YesLogic, developers of Prince CSS-based PDF rendering software. He was the Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software from 1998 until the browser was sold to new owners in 2016. He is best known for developing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) while working with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN in 1994.

In the near future, the web is going to be the master copy of human knowledge. We need to figure out ways to use that knowledge.

Quotes

• In the near future, the web is going to be the master copy of human knowledge. We need to figure out ways to use that knowledge.
  • The Web Will Be the Master Copy of Human Knowledge, an interview with GigaOM, May 21, 2010.