Intellectual work is essentially a lonely process, and if you can find a way of doing something so that you're in company without being disturbed, that, for me, is the critical thing. I often get to feel isolated so often if I'm sitting either where there aren't people or isn't a view.

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the museum of natural history, and I knew much more scientific stuff early on. From the time I was 11 or 12, I wanted to be a mathematician.

Cloud computing is a challenge to security, but one that can be overcome.

The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.

The Internet is a gift to fashion.

Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.

Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet, for example, and I'm not entirely sure it's such a useful term, but I think that's what most people mean by it.