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.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

Things can change so fast on the internet.

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.

I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.

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