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

- Robert Cailliau

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

- Robert Cailliau

Since the web is totally worldwide, we need a set of behavioural rules, laws they are commonly called, that are accepted worldwide. There is a big di…

- Robert Cailliau

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 rea…

- Robert Cailliau

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

- Robert Cailliau

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

- Robert Cailliau

What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know toda…

- Robert Cailliau

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 …

- Robert Cailliau

There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. B…

- Robert Cailliau