You affect the world by what you browse.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to my insurance company and I'm going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they've figured I'm looking at those books.

I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.

Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.

A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy.