 Celebrity damages private life. |
| Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems. |
| When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last. |
| 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. |
| Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free. |
| The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world. |
| Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable. |
| We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on. |
| The important thing is the diversity available on the Web. |
| 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. |
| Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases. |
| Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split. |
| 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. |
| That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon. |
| Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly. |
| Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information. |
| You affect the world by what you browse. |
| The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device. |
| I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues. |
| Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. |
