No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.

We had made a - sort of a national decision that we wanted to be this intellectual property country, where we would have things manufactured in China, but we would do the design, we would do the creative stuff.And now what we have done is, we have forgotten that that's what we wanted, and we're making the intellectual stuff more and more free. And, so, we're sort of left with less and less.

I think we really made a mistake in separating the Internet from capitalism in a certain way that is bad for our country.