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

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.

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

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.

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.

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.