When I invented the web, I didnt have to ask anyones permission. Now, — Tim Berners-Lee

"An [hypertext] encyclopaedia will be an overall attempt by the knowledgeable, the learned societies or anyone else, to represent the state-of-the-art in their field. An encyclopaedia will be a living document, as up to date as it can be, instantly accessible at any time. It will contain carefully authored explanations and summaries of the subject, as well as computer-generated indexes of literature. A reference to a paper from the encyclopaedia conveys authority and acceptance by academic society. A measure of a paper’s standing may be conveyed by the number of links it is away from an encyclopaedia."

"Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along."

"This project is experimental and of course comes without any warranty whatsoever. However, it could start a revolution in information access."

"I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da!— the World Wide Web."

"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."

"The fact that were all connected, the fact that weve got this information space — does change the parameters. It changes the way people live and work. It changes things for good and for bad. But I think, in general, its clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings — and the Webs a form of communications — so it generally should be good. But I think, also, we have to watch whether we preserve the stability of the world — like we dont want to watch this phenomenon like the stock market becoming unstable when it became computerized, for example. We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what were doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"