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.

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way

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

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

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.

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