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

We don't need secrecy.

Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.

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

There's plenty of rude stuff online. People say things online that they would be ashamed to say face to face. If people could treat others as though they were speaking face to face, that would be huge.

I'm a very friendly person, and I think that's had a big impact on my work because I tend to be pretty good with not trying to always win every argument and things like that. I just sort of try to bring a lot of people together to talk.

The Internet is allowing for us to really experience people in some of the most distant places in the world - as other people just like us. So get to know people, seek out bloggers from a country you're kind of curious about. It's about building empathy and breaking through to the point of recognizing people as people.