What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

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.

WHAT A CONCUBINE SHOULD NEVER SAY:In your case, ED is not a man's name.

The health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people.

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

Wine is meant to be with food - that's the point of it.

You are always connected to Source. Wherever you are, wherever you go, you are always connected to Divine Wisdom, Divine Intelligence, and Divine Love.

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.