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

One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.

One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

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

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy.

The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.