The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy.

The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.

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.

I should be able to pick which applications I use for managing my life, I should be able to pick which content I look at, and I should be able to pick which device I use, which company I use for supplying my internet, and I'd like those to be independent choices.

The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.