Quote

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

Jimmy Wales

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
Blogger
Businessperson
Computer Scientist
Entrepreneur
Internet Entrepreneur
Researcher
Wikimedian
Huntsville
Alabama
Jimbo Wales
Jimmy Donal Wales
Jimbo
Jimmy Donal Jimbo Wales
Groups
Break
Wells
Well
Work
Interacting
Things
Random
People
Bunch
Group

More quotes by Jimmy Wales

Image
What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
Jimmy Wales
Image
One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open they're viewed as proprietary.
Jimmy Wales
Image
People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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
Image
Ideally, our rules should be formed in such a fashion that an ordinary helpful kind thoughtful person doesn't really even need to know the rules. You just get to work, do something fun, and nobody hassles you as long as you are being thoughtful and kind.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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
Image
A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
Jimmy Wales
Image
It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll it's a cultural shift.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.
Jimmy Wales
Image
I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
Jimmy Wales
Image
IAR is policy, always has been.
Jimmy Wales
Image
If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
Jimmy Wales
Image
I can't do anything quietly anymore.
Jimmy Wales
Image
My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Myspace hurts my eyes.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
Jimmy Wales