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.

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.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

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

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

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.