The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

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.

Peace be upon you, for you have persevered! How excellent, then, this fulfilment in the hereafter!

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Civility, politeness, it's like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

Late style gets simpler and shorter, and here, I'm getting more abundant as I get older!

Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.

The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.