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.

What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

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 ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.

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

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.