To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work, I don't care if they're a high school kid o… - Jimmy Wales

The primary issue is how seriously we take our chosen obligations to people in the developing world who do not have Internet connections. … Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so..

education was always a passion in my household ... you know, the very traditional approach to knowledge and learning and establishing that as a base for a good life.

I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.