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

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.

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.

The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

It will soon make sense with some reasonable research and reading...ti's all in there, somewhere... find it!!

Areté is a word that means excellence in character and life. It is the accumulation of virtue in one's life.

Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

Caballine likes me to be masterful. She calls me her stallion.

The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.

Who on earth can feel any respect for a girl who chases?

What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?

In Britain you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at about 8. But I could be wrong about that.