"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."

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

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

"The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks."

"Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal."

"Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians."

"If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it sends it to Wikileaks."

"People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting."

"I think that reality exists and that it's knowable."

"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."

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

"We are still at the very beginning of the Internet. Let's use it wisely."

"Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me."

"I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy."