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

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other informational sectors.

Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.

When Wikipedia first started, the only people interacting on the Internet were hard core geeks. Now everyone is there, and they're attracted to the easy, free ways to interact.

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

You might call me a tech intermediary. I know how to talk to the people in Silicon Valley and then take that information and explain it to everyone else.

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.

Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.