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

I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

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.

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.

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

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