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.

The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.

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

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

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

Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web.

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.