In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

I'm a scientist - a geobiologist who's been studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil for over twenty years. One day, I realized that I wanted, needed, to tell people - and not just other scientists - about my life in science.

I'm not a very big fan of science fiction. I think that I'm a very big fan of living in the physical world.

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

I'd never thought about acting as a job. I was an engineer; I was in science and technology. I loved movies and television growing up, but I'd never thought about it as, 'Oh, that guy Denzel Washington is employed as an actor.'