One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.

E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.

I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.

The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

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

If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.