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.

Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space.

I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they’ve got a wonderful long-term plan.

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

It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.