To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or….

I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think….

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable..

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great..

Free speech includes the right to not speak..

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 ou….

Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad..

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view..

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting..

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

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..

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive..

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

Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the ….

There's plenty of rude stuff online. People say things online that they would be ashamed to say face to face. If people could treat others as though ….

People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting..

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community..

Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did..

We are still in the very beggining of the Internet. Let's use it wisely..

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

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily..