I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

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

It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work.

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.

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

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.