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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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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.
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Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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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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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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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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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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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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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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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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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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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 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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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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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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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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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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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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