We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

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

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.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze.

If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot 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.