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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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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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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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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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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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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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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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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.
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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 worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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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 think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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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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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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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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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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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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