Jimmy Wales Quotes
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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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We don't need secrecy.
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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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If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.
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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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I don't see any particular problem with that.
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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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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 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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My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.
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Our growth rate continues to be staggering.
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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 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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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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I worry about censorship in many parts of 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'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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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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IAR is policy, always has been.
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Random speculative pseudo information should be removed, unless it can be sourced.