It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

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

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.

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 Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.