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.

It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.

If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.