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.

It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right. That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of web users regardless of where they live.

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

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.