The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.

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

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.

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

When you understand things, there's no more magic.