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

I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. So, on the whole, I think the power that online distribution confers is a positive thing for society. Online we can act as a fifth estate.

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.

One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

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

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.