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Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

I always know my lines.

I've always been mad about cats.

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.

Life is too short to work so hard.

The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

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.

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

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

Celebrity damages private life.

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.

Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.

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

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.

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

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

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

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