It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

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

Our growth rate continues to be staggering.

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.

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

People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.

The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.

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

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

We don't need secrecy.

We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

Wikis and social networking are just tools.

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

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.