If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.

It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.

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

There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected.

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