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

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

It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

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.