As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.

It's not that you have jobs on the Internet, but the Internet makes it possible for more people to build their own jobs. What it does is, it erodes the power of institutions. It used to be you needed an institution to have a job. But, if you look at the three of us on this show, I don't think any of us is really employed by an institution. We run our own lives.

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.

I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do well, which is to set policy.

Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.

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