The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.

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.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.