The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

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

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

When I was growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, this is where the space and rocket center was. This is where all of the German rocket scientists came after war and started designing rockets for NASA, for the moon landing and all that.

EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.