My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.

In general, the best advice I can give people is to take criticism seriously, apologize for anything you have done wrong, and pull back from conflict. Of course, if you are right on a content matter, you should press forward in the interest of quality, but conflict often has a way of taking on a life of its own, unfortunately.

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.

I can't do anything quietly anymore.