Jimmy Wales Quotes

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Jimmy Wales

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 7, 1966

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

Jimmy Wales

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

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To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.

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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

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Dialing down is not an option for me.

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The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

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What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

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I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do.

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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

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The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.

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I am really accessible.

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It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.

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I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.

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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.

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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

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