I should be able to pick which applications I use for managing my life, I should be able to pick which content I look at, and I should be able to pick which device I use, which company I use for supplying my internet, and I'd like those to be independent choices.

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

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

Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.

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.

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.

A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.