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.

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.

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.