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We don't need secrecy.
Myspace hurts my eyes.
I am really accessible.
IAR is policy, always has been.
I can't do anything quietly anymore.
Dialing down is not an option for me.
If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.
Wikis and social networking are just tools.
I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
Our growth rate continues to be staggering.
Free speech includes the right to not speak.
Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.
I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.
I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.
We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.
People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.
I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
We are still in the very beggining of the Internet. Let's use it wisely.
People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.
EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.
It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.
I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do.
There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.
My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.
I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.
I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.
If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift.
Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.
Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.
Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.
A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.
The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.