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.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

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

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

Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web.