It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.

The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.

When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?

Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

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

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.