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.

Celebrity damages private life.

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.

I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

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.