"When someone just writes 'f**k, f**k, f**k', we just fix it, laugh and move on. But the difficult social issues are t…"

"Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible qualit…"

"[Wikipedia is] like a sausage: you might like the taste of it, but you don't necessarily want to see how it's made."

"I have no plans at all to be running an asylum. This is a serious encyclopedia project. We *do* have to make our chan…"

"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Th…"

"Dude, you rock."

"I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without cle…"

"What if we could get everyone in the world together to record what they know in one place?"

"IAR is policy, always has been."

"Ideally, our rules should be formed in such a fashion that an ordinary helpful kind thoughtful person doesn't really …"