I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

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.

Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.

Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do

Fatherhood is telling your daughter that Michael Jackson loves all his fans, but has special feelings for the ones who eat broccoli.

Sometimes, you know, bad is good.

I know this is maybe naive, but one day I hope there will be peace in the world. Maybe one day the flowers will come back.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.

The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract them.

Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow