Jimmy Wales Quotes

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Jimmy Wales

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 7, 1966

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

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I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.

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I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

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The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.

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Free speech includes the right to not speak.

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I still believe there is a need to open up search and it will come eventually. It is very important to challenge the current models.

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We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.

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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.

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Wikis and social networking are just tools.

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Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

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While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.

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There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

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One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.

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A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

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Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.

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If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.

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