Sarah Lacy

People always tell me the next stage of my career means moving to New York, but I never will. I don't care how that affects my career, and I think it's stupid that it would.

My husband and I own half a dozen iPods, a Mac desktop, and four Mac laptops. We're clearly fans of Mr. Jobs' work.

The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.