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"When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine."
"When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?"
"We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes."
"It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work."
"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."
"[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance."
"A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things."
"The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things."
"When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination."
"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 ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner."
"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."
"You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it."
"Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information."
"Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable."
"If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services."
"Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web."
"Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly."
"What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice."
"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."
"That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon."