The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.

When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.

The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.

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