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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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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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Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.
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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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IAR is policy, always has been.
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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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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.
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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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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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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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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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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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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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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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