In Hong Kong, the property business has always been very competitive, so we have to think of ways to get an edge over our competitors.

Ideas are cheap. The difficult part is finding the team to execute them.

My drive into high tech doesn't involve a lot of people - just me and a very small team.

You fight technology with technology, so you have to stay one step ahead of the criminal. It's very much a chess game - they make a move, you have to make a move.

The reason people talk about cable cutting is they imagine the price burden will get so high that people won't be able to pay it. They're missing something: that the actual price of the electronic package is going down. They've got their Internet, phone, TV, all of it. Now people are using more and more stuff for less.

We've got to get people across this country believing they can be a part of a technology future, that that's going to work for their families in an empowering way.

Google will be obliged either to accept Chinese regulations or exit the world's largest Internet market, with serious consequences for its long-term global ambitions. This is a metaphor for our times: America's most dynamic company cannot take on the Chinese government - even on an issue like free and open information - and win.