I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

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.

We open our hearts to receive God when we open our hearts to people

Money can bring the children into places of power and influence

Enjoy life while you still have it. No one knows their time of departure from the face of this earth. Therefore, be sure to always seize every moment that comes to you, and make it very memorable.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

I learned it by doing it, and I was scared to death.

We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

Donald Trump is man of action.

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race.

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.