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

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

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.

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

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.

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.