The Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going to end in the U.S.A. If we had a situation in which the U.S. had serious flaws in its Net Neutrality, and Europe did have Net Neutrality, and I were trying to start a company, then I would be very tempted to move.

The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.

What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.

The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.

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