Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

The nice thing about programming at the RDF level is that you can just say, I'll ask for all the books. You can ask for all the shelves. You can ask for a given shelf whether a book was on it. And you're not worrying so much about the underlying syntax.

The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.

I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.

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.

What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.