Half-formed ideas, they float around. They come from different places, and the mind has got this wonderful way of somehow just shoveling them around until one day they fit. They may fit not so well, and then we go for a bike ride or something, and it’s better.

It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.

I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.