Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.

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.

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

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.