Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.

As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.