Quote

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

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
Life
Mostly
Rational
Approach
Take
Trying

More quotes by Jimmy Wales

Image
Free speech includes the right to not speak.
Jimmy Wales
Image
I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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
Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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
People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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
What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
Jimmy Wales
Image
I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Myspace hurts my eyes.
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
If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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
Image
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.
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
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