Jimmy Wales Quotes
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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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Hayek's work on price theory is central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project. … One can't understand my ideas about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek.
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Quite frankly, several of the people who contributed to the article should be banned from coming near a keyboard until they have learned to engage in proper encyclopedia writing.
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We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?
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Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information
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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 don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.
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EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.
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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby, because whatever they are here for, it is not to help build an encyclopedia.
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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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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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There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.
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Wikipedia is like a sausage: you might like the taste of it, but you don't necessarily want to see how it's made.
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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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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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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 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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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of 'true scientific discourse.' It isn't.
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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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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.
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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.