The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

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

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

We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.

When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.

The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.