I had a lot of successes, but what really made me fearless was my complete failure at Zidd-Davis. Once you've lived through that, you know you can survive, and you're not as scared... There's nothing to build confidence like real achievement, but also like real failure.

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

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.

The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.

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

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.