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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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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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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 zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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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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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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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