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

Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.

On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.

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

People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.

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?"