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

I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.