EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.

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.

Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

ELIXIR Strings are bright and so sturdy. I'm absolutely in love with them.

As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

Abortion ... interferes with God's plan-a plan He willed before He created the universe.

As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.