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I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.
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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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 can't do anything quietly anymore.
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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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