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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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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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Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.
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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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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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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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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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 think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
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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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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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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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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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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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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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