Science is shaped by ignorance. Great questions themselves evolve, of course, because their answers spawn new and better questions in turn.

Those countries that use firewalls or otherwise restrict the ability of their citizens to obtain access to information are hurting themselves, especially when it comes to their ability to compete economically.

We look at the Internet's success and want to make sure we keep the recipe for it. If you modify it, the risk is that you come out with something far worse.

Obviously we want to find common ground, we want a successful summit, but we're not giving away our principles in order to get there

It has to be done in an appropriate way, so that nobody thinks it is a backdoor approach to have intergovernmental regulation for something that ought not to be regulated.