It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of information. (Jimmy Wales, IB World, 68, Sept. 2013, p.10. )

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.

Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

To ascend you must rise above, and I believe in the idea of keeping your “feet in the clouds and your head in the stars”.

God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

Random acts of kindness and the desire to do the best job possible lead to trust.

You can sell a lot more books if you work with other authors than if you try to do everything all by yourself.

It's important for us, if we're going to be a good team, to be a good defensive team in the fourth quarter.

The love withheld is always the love we long for most.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don't get hit very often.