We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"

The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.

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.

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.