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Jim Les Inspirational Quotes (54)

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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
Jimmy Wales
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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
Jimmy Wales
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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
Jimmy Wales
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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
Jimmy Wales
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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
Jimmy Wales
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People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.
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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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I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.
Jimmy Wales
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
Jimmy Wales
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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
Jimmy Wales
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We have to come together, worldwide, and think. We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.
Jimmy Wales
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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
Jimmy Wales
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You're entitled to say, if you're so smart, why don't you tell me what that dark matter is? And I'll have to confess I don't know.
Jim Peebles
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The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
Jimmy Wales
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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.
Jimmy Wales
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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
Jimmy Wales
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To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.
Jimmy Wales
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I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.
Jimmy Wales
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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
Jimmy Wales
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Obviously, ISU will be primed for revenge and wants to get that bad taste of the last game out of their mouth.
Jim Les
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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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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.
Jimmy Wales
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