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.

The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.

On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.

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.

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

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