Acceptance Is The Spiritual Hammock.

The Web Took Off In All Its Glory Because It Was A Royalty-free Infrastructure . . . 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 To End In The U.s.a. If We Had A Situation In Which The U.s. Had Serious Flaws In Its Net Neutrality, And Europe Did Have Net Neutrality, And I Were Trying To Start A Company, Then I Would Be Very Tempted To Move.

Most Larger Companies Now See That For The Market To Grow, Web Infrastructure Must Be Royalty-free.

It's Possible To Live Without The Web. It's Not Possible To Live Without Water. But If You've Got Water, Then The Difference Between Somebody Who Is Connected To The Web And Is Part Of The Information Society, And Someone Who (is Not) Is Growing Bigger And Bigger.

When You Understand Things, There's No More Magic.

I Think A Lot Of Great Software Has Been Written By People Who Are Scratching A Short-term Itch, Something Which Has Been Niggling Them For Ages, But In The Back Of Their Mind They’ve Got A Wonderful Long-term Plan.