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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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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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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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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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I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.
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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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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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People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.
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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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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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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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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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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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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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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.
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