"I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology."

"You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose."

"By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people."

"My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative."

"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."

"I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of 'Fox News' every day and stuff like that."

"We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed."