Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web almost a decade ago while working in Switzerland as a researcher at CERN, says in his forthcoming book that he dislikes being asked why he hasn't tried to make a lot of money from the Internet: "What is maddening is the terrible notion that a person's value depends on how important and financially successful they are, and that this is measured in terms of money." (New York Times 20 Sep 99) http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/09/biztech/articles/20lee.html
