Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

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

I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they’ve got a wonderful long-term plan.

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.

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.

I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to my insurance company and I'm going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they've figured I'm looking at those books.

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