People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.

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

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

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.

Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so.

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.