Weaving the Web (1999)
Context: At CERN there was a credo meant to avoid unnecessary labors, it said that when acquiring new technology: Buy, Don't Build. There were several commercial hypertext editors and I thought we could just add some internet code, so that the hypertext documents could then be sent over the internet. I thought the companies engaged in the then fringe field of hypertext would immediately grasp the possibilities of the web. Unfortunately, their reaction was quite the opposite... it seemed that explaining the vision of the web was exceedingly difficult without a web browser in hand, people had to be able to grasp the web in full, which meant imagining a whole world populated with websites and browsers. It was a lot to ask. Despite the buy don't build credo I came to the conclusion that I was going to have to create the web on my own.
Guest lecture, UC Berkeley http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7582902000166025817 Oct. 5, 2005 – 40 min.
“Don't start telling me buildings are works of art, because I don't buy it.”
Charlie Rose interview (2001)
http://www.flixster.com/actor/leonardo-di-caprio/leonardo-dicaprio-quotes
Referring to James Randi's offer of $1 million dollars to test her psychic ability.
September 3, 2001 Larry King Live, CNN interview http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/03/lkl.00.html
“Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own…”
“We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.”
(When asked what was the first painting she bought).
Aperture Magazine 1999 http://allaboutmadonna.com/madonna-interviews-articles/aperture-magazine-summer-1999
