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Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?
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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 have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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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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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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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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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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 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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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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IAR is policy, always has been.
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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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