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One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.

Making things open-source brings the cost down.

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.

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.

I won't sit here and say an Open Source project will do things faster than a closed source, but one of the reasons why is that it sits on a whole lot of things that came before it.

I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia.

If you don't have the best product, you're not going to make it in open-source.