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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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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 think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
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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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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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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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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 have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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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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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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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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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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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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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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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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Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.
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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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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll it's a cultural shift.
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