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

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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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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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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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 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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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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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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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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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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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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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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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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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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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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