I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.

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.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

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

If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!

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.