When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.

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.

I shouted the perfect words to scare him off. It was just the delivery (and only the delivery) that made me sound like a twelve-year-old girl with pee running down her leg. I felt dirty and stupid.

Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

There really isn't any limit to the number of people who want a piece of you, and it's all important stuff.

What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress.

People are effective because they say 'no,' because they say, 'this isn't for me.'

The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.

A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.