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My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.

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 think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

We don't need secrecy.

I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.

I can't do anything quietly anymore.

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

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.

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.

It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

Dialing down is not an option for me.

The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

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

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

Our growth rate continues to be staggering.

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.

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.

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.

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

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