What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.