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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.
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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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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 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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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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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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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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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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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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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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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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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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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IAR is policy, always has been.
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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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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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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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