The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.

It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

It's possible to live without the Web. It's not possible to live without water. But if you've got water, then the difference between somebody who is connected to the Web and is part of the information society, and someone who (is not) is growing bigger and bigger.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.