We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.

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.

Study to learn, do not study to pass".

The eye of a man is never satisfied with what it sees.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Sometimes it seems to me that that’s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.

Everything I do is the environment.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.

Hulu is about the shows, not the networks. The shows are the brands that users care about.

The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.