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Wikis and social networking are just tools.

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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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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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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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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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 don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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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.
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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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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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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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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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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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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.
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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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