We have to come together, worldwide, and "think". We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

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

Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.