While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.

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

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

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

I can't do anything quietly anymore.

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.

The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.