Tim Berners-Lee quotes
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
You affect the world by what you browse.
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.
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.
They may call it a home page, but it's more like the gnome in somebody's front yard than the home itself.
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.