Quote

The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

Jimmy Wales

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
Blogger
Businessperson
Computer Scientist
Entrepreneur
Internet Entrepreneur
Researcher
Wikimedian
Huntsville
Alabama
Jimbo Wales
Jimmy Donal Wales
Jimbo
Jimmy Donal Jimbo Wales
People
Screw
Screws
Core
Valuable
Something
Believe
Really
World

More quotes by Jimmy Wales

Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
Jimmy Wales
Image
I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.
Jimmy Wales
Image
It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
Jimmy Wales
Image
You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Myspace hurts my eyes.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
Jimmy Wales
Image
My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
Jimmy Wales
Image
It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll it's a cultural shift.
Jimmy Wales
Image
A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
Jimmy Wales
Image
What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of true scientific discourse. It isn't.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales