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 you make the Internet, live on the internet.

I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands everyday is super revolutionary.

You can learn practically anything you want in the world online.

The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives.

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.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.