It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right. That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of web users regardless of where they live.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.

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.

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

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.