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.

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

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.

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

It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.

Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.