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.

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

When you understand things, there's no more magic.

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

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.