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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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IAR is policy, always has been.
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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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 think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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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