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

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.