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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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 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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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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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 frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.
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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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Our growth rate continues to be staggering.
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We don't need secrecy.
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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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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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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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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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IAR is policy, always has been.
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I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.
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Random speculative pseudo information should be removed, unless it can be sourced.