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

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

The concept of the Web is of universal readership.

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

The nice thing about programming at the RDF level is that you can just say, I'll ask for all the books. You can ask for all the shelves. You can ask for a given shelf whether a book was on it. And you're not worrying so much about the underlying syntax.

The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.