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.

The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.

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

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

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.

We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.