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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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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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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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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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People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.
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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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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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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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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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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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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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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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