A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.

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.

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