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.

Dialing down is not an option for me.

I still believe there is a need to open up search and it will come eventually. It is very important to challenge the current models.

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

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.

The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.