I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.