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Free speech includes the right to not speak.

Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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.
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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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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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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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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.
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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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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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I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.
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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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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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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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IAR is policy, always has been.
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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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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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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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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