If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.

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.

There is not a corner of this world that God has abandoned.

No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path!

I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy)

I know being with me is not easy. But I want you to understand no one has me, or has ever had me, except you.

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are

When I say do your best, I mean your very best. You are capable of so much more.

Success lasts only three seconds. After that you're the same as you were before you had it.

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.

Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.