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

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.

People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.

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.

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

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