A collection of strange and interesting quotes from the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, held this week in Budapest, Hungary.

"I need to know how to get to a URL -- this is both a browser and an operating system I don't use"

"The best thing about XQuery is that it feels like writing Scheme."

"Who here has read the XML Schema spec? I see seven people. I'll round it up to 107."

"I'm just getting hammered by things probing ports."

"The key thing is that scruffy works."

"Oh... I thought you were Dan Connolly."

"It won't play ... It's just Windows, right? ... Oh, bugger."

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