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.

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.

The best investor is your customer.

People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.

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

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.

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.