If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.

The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.

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

E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.

If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.

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.

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.