Celebrity damages private life.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

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

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

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.

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

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.

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

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.