Tim Berners-Lee

"Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space."

"Celebrity damages private life."

"I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work."

"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."

"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."

"The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information."

"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."

"We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal."