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

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.

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

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.

When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?

Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.