The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.

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

Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.