I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.

If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.

My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.

Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.

If I'm on the titanic I want to be steering.

I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.

For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.