When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.

At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.

If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace.

I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.

To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.

If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.

The thin line between life and death is still under construction.

I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.

There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.

Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.

It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

You can be in the storm, but don't let the storm get in you.

The Text is not a definitive object.

For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy.

I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.