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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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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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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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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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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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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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'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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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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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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'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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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.
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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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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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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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