There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look at how people and the web combine as a whole - until now.

It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

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

Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.

It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I'm getting in return.

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.