That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.

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.

[With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning.

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

Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.

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