Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.

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.

Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.

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.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.