I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.

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.

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

I should be able to pick which applications I use for managing my life, I should be able to pick which content I look at, and I should be able to pick which device I use, which company I use for supplying my internet, and I'd like those to be independent choices.

It's possible to live without the Web. It's not possible to live without water. But if you've got water, then the difference between somebody who is connected to the Web and is part of the information society, and someone who (is not) is growing bigger and bigger.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

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