Quote

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.

Jimmy Wales

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
Blogger
Businessperson
Computer Scientist
Entrepreneur
Internet Entrepreneur
Researcher
Wikimedian
Huntsville
Alabama
Jimbo Wales
Jimmy Donal Wales
Jimbo
Jimmy Donal Jimbo Wales
People
Incentive
Incentives
Rules
Simply
Change
Doe
Things

More quotes by Jimmy Wales

Image
We have to come together, worldwide, and think. We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.
Jimmy Wales
Image
IAR is policy, always has been.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
Jimmy Wales
Image
What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of true scientific discourse. It isn't.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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?
Jimmy Wales
Image
There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
Jimmy Wales
Image
I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
Jimmy Wales
Image
I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
Jimmy Wales
Image
If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Myspace hurts my eyes.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.
Jimmy Wales
Image
It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll it's a cultural shift.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
I can't do anything quietly anymore.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
Jimmy Wales