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

When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.