When you understand things, there's no more magic.

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.

Nobody thought the direct business model would work. But work it did, and spectacularly. Until it didn’t. And therein lies the tale.

...reclusiveness itself may be a kind of violence. It leaves an abyss for us to throw our fantasies into.

Awakening will be sudden and shocking. You and I must be there for her awakening. We won't be there for (her?) later on. That's for other hands to do.

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.

In business, organization is an absolute necessity, not an alternative.

Follow your gut, make a choice, and throw yourself into it. If you make a mistake, then you have merely afforded yourself a valuable lesson.