I did spearhead the introduction of the Internet in countries like Russia, the former Soviet Union, because it is a very open system of communication. I think it has great potential for self-organization and self-organization is very much at the heart of an open society. The Internet is sort of a medium of open society. However, it can also be a medium of control and so we have to be careful it doesn't destroy you.

You know, these things interested me before I became a businessman and I kind of neglected them during twenty, twenty-five years, while I was engaged in making…

I think you will have to be very, very careful to have the regulations that will protect freedom.

I argue that it's appropriate for people to pursue their profit motive in business. If you want to change that, you're going against human nature. But when it …

The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements…

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time.