Jimmy Wales Quotes
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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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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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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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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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If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.
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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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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 you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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I don't see any particular problem with that.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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We don't need secrecy.
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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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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.
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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.