What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

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.

A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.

A slave is but half a man.

I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.

Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'

The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes.

I can't abide small talk.

I'm open to anything. I would love to play someone completely off the wall.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.