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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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 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.
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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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My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.
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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.
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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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It is pretty weird. A few years ago, I was just some guy sitting in front of the internet. Now I send an e-mail or edit an article and it makes headlines around the world … I used to be just a guy - now I'm Jimmy Wales.
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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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I don't see any particular problem with that.
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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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We don't need secrecy.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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Our growth rate continues to be staggering.
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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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Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.
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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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Random speculative pseudo information should be removed, unless it can be sourced.
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I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.