One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.

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.

It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.

What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.

The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.

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

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.