There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.
One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.
The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.
The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.
The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.
Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.
Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.
We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.
Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
Acting can be so much fun that it's easy to forget that what you're doing is a job. But if I've got my tie on, I'm going to work.
You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.
Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.
If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.
You cannot manage an airline from a corner office in Willis Tower. That doesn't work. You've got to manage by walking around.
