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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.

Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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'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 can't do anything quietly anymore.
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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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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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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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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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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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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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 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 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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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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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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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