If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.

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

If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to my insurance company and I'm going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they've figured I'm looking at those books.

I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.