A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?

Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it around my neck. I could wear it to school tomorrow. It could read, I MISS CHARLIE KHAN.

No power is born of hate.All power and authority is born of love.Oh, you, who want any power somewhere!Ask yourselves who and what you love?

All of it—for this. Leading us to a door we can't open, a password we don't have.

Life only demands from you the strength you possess.

There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices.

I shall strive to inculculate in my men the spirit of the chase.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.

It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.