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 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 amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.

It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

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.