People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.

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

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

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

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.