What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.

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

It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right. That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of web users regardless of where they live.

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.

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.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.