It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.

The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.

I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.

The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.

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.

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.