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 was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

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.

We have to come together, worldwide, and "think". We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.

We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?

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

Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.

I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.

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

Dialing down is not an option for me.

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.

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

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.