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"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."
"You affect the world by what you browse."
"When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA."
"If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other."
"Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves."
"Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free."
"Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well."
"There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected."
"I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached."
"The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one."
"The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large."
"IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device."
"Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet."
"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."
"I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries."
"One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't."
"The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information."
"The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device."
"It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993."
"I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time."