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" Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything. "

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" If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can do a really good job of that. They know what you're interested in, they know your personality, they know if you have a scientific type of mind-set or not. "

" I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things. "

" I think a lot of what the iPad app is going to be used for is just reading the best content on Quora. It really helps the whole system run because people who are writing answers can get this very wide distribution to a large audience of readers. "

" We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet. "

" I think as more people use the phones to access the Internet, they have a lot less patience for trying to find things on the search engines. That is because you need to figure a lot of things out for search to work. "

" Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides. "

" We want Quora to last forever, and in order to last forever, it's going to need to have revenue. One of the best things about ads is that you don't need to exclude anyone. "

" The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is. "

" On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do. "

" Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one. "

" There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there's just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds. "

" We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that. "

" Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write something really good, and maybe it's the definitive answer on the Internet for the next 10 years. Maybe it's only a year, but not like a tweet, where it's only relevant for a day or a week. "

" The area we define as what Quora's good at is long-form text that's useful over time, and where you care about who wrote the text. Not that you need to be friends with them, just that they're someone trustworthy. "

" I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information. "

" You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built. "

" In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games. "

" Anything you want to know, you go to Quora and get it. And at the same time, give people a platform that is easy to use for sharing the knowledge. "

" A lot of people really like to answer questions, and they really enjoy sharing their knowledge. Especially people who have valuable knowledge. "

" The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it. "

" In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It's information that's really valuable, and it's information that people want to share. "

" When we get people to log in, they end up using Quora a lot more, and we can provide a lot better experience for them. We can show them a personalized news feed; we can send them digest emails and do all this ranking to find some stuff they want to read. "