I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

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.

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.

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

I'm a very friendly person, and I think that's had a big impact on my work because I tend to be pretty good with not trying to always win every argument and things like that. I just sort of try to bring a lot of people together to talk.

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.