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

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.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

I can't do anything quietly anymore.

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

The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.