Jan Koum

“Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech.”

“I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.”

“Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.”

“Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.”