I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

Skype has a great engineering team, which I like to describe as 'all of Estonia.'

The transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer. The consequences of this breakthrough are hard to overstate.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.

The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.