Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.

If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere else.

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

If high-tech companies are serious about doing the right thing, they can join together and lobby for more transparency and accountability in the way in which Chinese officialdom deals with Internet services.

Technology can be useful to organise a large number of people online and offline against the common goal of getting a particular dictator out of power. But at the end of the day, somebody still has to run for president with a different last name and deliver for the population.