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.

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

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

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

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

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

It's possible to live without the Web. It's not possible to live without water. But if you've got water, then the difference between somebody who is connected to the Web and is part of the information society, and someone who (is not) is growing bigger and bigger.