Baptiste Coulange

“E-mail allowed messages to be sent from one person to another, but did not form a space in which information could permanently exists and be referred to.”
― Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web

“What was often difficult for people to understand about the design was that there was nothing else beyond URLs, HTTP and HTML. There was no central computer "controlling" the Web, no single network on which these protocols worked, not even organisation anywhere that "ran" the Web. The Web was not a physical "thing" that existed in a certain "place". It was a "space" in which information could exist.”
― Tim Berners-Lee

“Most of systems still depended on some central node to which everything had to be connected [...]. I wanted the act of adding a link to be trivial. If i was, then a web of links could spread evenly across the globe.”
― Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web

“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all is for an act of theatre to be engaged.”
― Peter Brook, The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate