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.

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

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.

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.

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.

I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.