Lars Aronsson wrote:
He started it as a test, and it snowballed out of
control. Nobody
could predict its popularity. Larry to me seems like a hesitant
Martin Luther who says "wait, I didn't want to start a new church,
only reform the old one!" But nobody wants to wait.
The original idea for a wiki for Wikipedia was not proposed by Larry,
but by Jeremy Rosenfeld.
--Jimbo