You affect the world by what you browse.

I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.

If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!

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

I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.