Jimmy Wales Quotes
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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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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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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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Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.
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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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We don't need secrecy.
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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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Our growth rate continues to be staggering.
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If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.
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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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I think MySpace is doomed, I give them about two more years.... I think Facebook is the next Microsoft in both the bad and the good senses. That's an amazing company that is going to do a lot of good and bad things.
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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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I don't see any particular problem with that.
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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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My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.
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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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I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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IAR is policy, always has been.