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Jimmy Wales Inspirational Quotes (51)

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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.
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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 worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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.
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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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.
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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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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.
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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.
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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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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.
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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.
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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
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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.
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When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.
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IAR is policy, always has been.
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The more time I spent on the site the more I came to think of Wales as some kind of Queen Ant, letting the vast colony go about its work, at the centre of a system where the knowledge of the community is infinitely larger than the sum of experience of all its individuals.
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