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

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 can't escape the need to loveNorCan we resist the longing to be loved

When it comes to recognizing your greatness, start first within your mind. Start now, in this moment. Imagine, imagine, imagine and then believe!

So-called intellectuals have ego-power

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

I'll do everything I've got to do to get on base, and I've been doing that. I'm happy with it.

There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.

You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.

It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.

I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.