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

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.

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

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

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.