Jimmy Wales Quotes
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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 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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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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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 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 worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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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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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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We don't need secrecy.
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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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If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.
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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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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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I don't see any particular problem with that.
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I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.
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IAR is policy, always has been.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.