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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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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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 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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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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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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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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Our growth rate continues to be staggering.
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We don't need secrecy.
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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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.
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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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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.