"Video TED Talks: Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web at TED in 2009"

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

“Tim Berners-Lee on the W3C site”

“Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.”

“Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.”

“The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.”

“Cool URIs don't change”