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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.

Jimmy Wales

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of true scientific discourse. It isn't.
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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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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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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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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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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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I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.
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The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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