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

Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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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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Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.
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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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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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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.
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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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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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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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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