We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

Celebrity damages private life.

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.

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

The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.