One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.

As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.

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

What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.

Things can change so fast on the internet.

What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.

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