You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.

Celebrity damages private life.

The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

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