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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

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.
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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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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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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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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 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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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.
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A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
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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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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
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Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.
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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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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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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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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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