It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.

If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.

The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.

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

E-mail is interesting. We can't live with it, and you can't live without it.

I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.

The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.