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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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 don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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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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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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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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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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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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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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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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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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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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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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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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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.
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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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