The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

The minute we became a global society, especially now that we're all connected up with the Internet, people wanted to believe in something a little more interesting than their earthbound lives.

Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional.

From the day an idea is conceptualized to the day the technology is built, carried out, and regulated, it's important to have that human awareness.

The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.