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.

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.

It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.

When you understand things, there's no more magic.

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

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.