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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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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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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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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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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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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.
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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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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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.
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I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.
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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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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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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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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
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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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IAR is policy, always has been.
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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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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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