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

I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.

The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.

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

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.