"If we can't laugh at ourselves, we'll be ill prepared to deal with
criticism. And criticism is healthy for any technology community, but
especially one whose ambitions are as large as ours. We are trying to
build a global, integrated system for planet-wide sharing of
descriptions of all things and their interconnections. Described like
that, it sounds like drug-addled idiocy, but that's what we're doing.
And the only way we'll manage it is if we do it in good humour."

Lots of raving about this: what the Web is and isn't, what linked data is, and it even champions One Web. Excellent!

"Know what else is great? Now, finally, ten years on, I know that the Semantic Web is real and viable, because I'm afraid I'll get sued for using it."