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. -Adam D'Angelo Knowledge
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. -Adam D'Angelo Patience
Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals. -Adam D'Angelo Space