Quote

We have to come together, worldwide, and think. We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.

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
Use
Together
Come
Think
Worldwide
Thinking
Wisely
Tool
Tools
Internet

More quotes by Jimmy Wales

Image
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
Jimmy Wales
Image
Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Myspace hurts my eyes.
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
I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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
I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Free speech includes the right to not speak.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Wikis and social networking are just tools.
Jimmy Wales
Image
I can't do anything quietly anymore.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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