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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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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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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 who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll it's a cultural shift.
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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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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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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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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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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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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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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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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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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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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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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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One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open they're viewed as proprietary.
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