Jimmy Wales Quotes

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• 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.

  Jimmy Wales

  Business, Internet Access, World

  "Wikipedia At 15: The Struggle To Attract Non-Techy Geeks". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. January 15, 2016.

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• Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.

  Jimmy Wales

  People, Doe, Incentives

  "Wikipedia and Beyond". Interview with Katherine Mangu-Ward, reason.com. June 2007.

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

  Jimmy Wales

  Views, Use, Source

  "The Saturday interview: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2011.

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• I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

  Jimmy Wales

  Freedom, Expression, Speech

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• Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.

  Jimmy Wales

  Enough Time, Wikipedia, Screw Ups

  "Deconstructing Wikipedia at the Berkman Center". www.cnet.com. May 15, 2008.

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

  Jimmy Wales

  World, Single Person, Persons

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• To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.

  Jimmy Wales

  Smart, School, Kids

  "Q&A" with Jimmy Wales, www.c-span.org. September 12, 2005.

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• The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.

  Jimmy Wales

  Real, Party, Struggle

  "The Birth of Wikipedia". Ted Talk, www.ted.com. 2005.

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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

  Jimmy Wales

  Fun, Creating, Wikipedia

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• Free speech includes the right to not speak.

  Jimmy Wales

  Speech, Speak, Free Speech

  "Why Wikipedia went down at midnight". Interview with John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. January 18, 2012.

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• We are still in the very beggining of the Internet. Let's use it wisely.

  Jimmy Wales

  Use, Internet, Stills

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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.

  Jimmy Wales

  Information Knowledge, Hands, People

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

  Jimmy Wales

  Reality, Thinking

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• Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.

  Jimmy Wales

  Wikipedia, Profit, Non Profit

  "The Wisdom of One". www.theage.com.au. April 25, 2007.

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• Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

  Jimmy Wales

  Fighting, People, Politics

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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.

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking, Nuts, Three

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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.

  Jimmy Wales

  People, Community, Minorities

  "Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds". Slashdot Interview, slashdot.org. July 28, 2004.

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

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking, People, Authority

  "The Saturday interview: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2011.

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

  Jimmy Wales

  Fun, People, Interesting

  "Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales Describes The Site’s Hold-Out On Social Media" By Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2011.

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

  Jimmy Wales

  Bigs, Tendencies, Approach

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• Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.

  Jimmy Wales

  Goal, Effort, Community

  "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia". Wikipedia-l mailing list, March 08, 2005.

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

  Jimmy Wales

  People, Groups, Breaking Down

  "Know It All" by Stacy Schiff, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2006.

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• There's plenty of rude stuff online. People say things online that they would be ashamed to say face to face. If people could treat others as though they were speaking face to face, that would be huge.

  Jimmy Wales

  People, Rude, Faces

  "The Encyclopedist's Lair". The New York Times, November 19, 2007.

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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.

  Jimmy Wales

  Circles, Important, Together

  "Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds". Slashdot Interview, slashdot.org. July 28, 2004.

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• Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

  Jimmy Wales

  Comedian, Needs, Stills

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