It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.

The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission.

If you have things or are involved with things that turn on, it's going to have code. And there are so many people - let's pick on the historians - even as a historian, let's say I ended up going the road of being a historian, just knowing some basic scripts, any kind of automation would have made me a 10 times better historian because I wouldn't have to sit there changing every file name to "1234" and then "12345." It can have a transformative value.

The problem is these politicians have very, very big interests in being re-elected, and the money that gets them there is provided by people who don't necessarily have the interest of the public in mind.

If you look now, more than ever new entrants, new upstarts, are able to grow so much faster than they could before.

What one realizes there is that we are not in control of the [reddit] community, in any way, shape or form. We have no power over it and so we've lost this total control.

If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.