Jimmy Wales Quotes

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Jimmy Wales

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 7, 1966

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

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I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.

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If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.

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We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

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My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.

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We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

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I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.

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Our growth rate continues to be staggering.

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Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.

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People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.

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I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

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My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.

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The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

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I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

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We don't need secrecy.

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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.

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I can't do anything quietly anymore.

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A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

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People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.

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