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There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there's just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds.

The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.

When we get people to log in, they end up using Quora a lot more, and we can provide a lot better experience for them. We can show them a personalized news feed; we can send them digest emails and do all this ranking to find some stuff they want to read.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft.

The area we define as what Quora's good at is long-form text that's useful over time, and where you care about who wrote the text. Not that you need to be friends with them, just that they're someone trustworthy.

We started off by inviting our friends to use Quora, and then they invited their friends, and it just grew from there.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.

You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.