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

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.

It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.

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.

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.