People would publish their websites; other people would read them. But there was no real back and forth other than through e-mail. Web 2.0 was what they called the collaborative web - Facebook, Twitter, the social media.

US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory.

The New York Times and The Guardian came out and said, "Hey, clemency for Snowden." But for me, the key - and I've said this from the beginning: it's not about me. I don't care if I get clemency. I don't care what happens to me.

So many of the things we're told by the government simply aren't true.

I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.

Our rights are not granted by governments. They are inherent to our nature. But it's entirely the opposite for governments: their privileges are precisely equal to only those which we suffer them to enjoy.

We decentralise the ability to decide the level of publicity that's attached to any of our communications.