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

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

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

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

Dialing down is not an option for me.

When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.

There's plenty of rude stuff online. People say things online that they would be ashamed to say face to face. If people could treat others as though they were speaking face to face, that would be huge.