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

The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.

Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.

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

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

If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!

The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.