I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.

One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.