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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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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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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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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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 worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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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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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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IAR is policy, always has been.
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I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.
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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 can't do anything quietly anymore.
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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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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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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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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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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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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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