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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 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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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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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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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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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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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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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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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.
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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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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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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IAR is policy, always has been.
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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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