I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.

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

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.

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

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

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.

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