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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.

Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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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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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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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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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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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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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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We have to come together, worldwide, and think. We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.
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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.
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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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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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