Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.

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

The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.