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The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

The story of the Web starts in 1980, when Berners-Lee, a young consulting physicist at the CERN physics laboratory near Geneva, grew frustrated with existing methods for finding and transferring information.

The world is really run by the Web. There's so much information out there that you can click and keep going down the rabbit hole finding stuff.

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn't work like that... There's a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.

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

The web's strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world's first universal platform.

The World Wide Web went from zero to millions of web pages in a few years. Many revolutions look irrelevant just before they change everything swiftly.