As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.

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.