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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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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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IAR is policy, always has been.
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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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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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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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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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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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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The more time I spent on the site the more I came to think of Wales as some kind of Queen Ant, letting the vast colony go about its work, at the centre of a system where the knowledge of the community is infinitely larger than the sum of experience of all its individuals.
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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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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.
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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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 don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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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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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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