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

Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.

E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.