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"The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world."
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"Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information."

"We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal."

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"Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases."

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"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."

"Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable."
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