“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 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.”

“One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.”

“Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.”

“We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.”

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

“You affect the world by what you browse.”

“When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.”

“The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.”

“It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.”

“The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.”

“Celebrity damages private life.”