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.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.

What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

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.