I'm not surprised about the lack of women on boardrooms. They were only emancipated 200 years ago, and historically, men have dominated. I welcome women as long as they qualify for the job.

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

It's very important to be curious in a very universal way. Whether someone is poor or rich, I'm curious about everything.

When we started out in the U.K., there were songs that we made, we put them on the Internet, and we immediately started touring the U.K. We borrowed our friend's mum's car, and drove ourselves around for, like, a year playing gigs in pubs and tiny little venues. In that respect, we're pretty grass roots as a band. We've done all that together.

I joined bit.ly as chief scientist in October of 2009. The company is a URL-shortener and content-sharing platform; we provide tools for people to share and track links on the Internet.

No one will use the new Internet if it's slow, costs money and doesn't scale.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.