The core community is passionate about quality and getting it right. If you want to read some good criticisms of Wikipedia, probably the best place to go is to the Wikipedia article called 'criticisms of Wikipedia'... It was either the dumbest thing or the smartest thing I ever did. The dumbest thing for the obvious reasons, but the smartest thing because I don't think it could have had nearly as much impact as it has. One of the key things that inspired people to put a lot into it (was the charity aspect).

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

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

I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.

There's plenty of rude stuff online. People say things online that they would be ashamed to say face to face. If people could treat others as though they were speaking face to face, that would be huge.