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.

When you understand things, there's no more magic.

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 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.

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

Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.

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