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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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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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People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.
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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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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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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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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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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 have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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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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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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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'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 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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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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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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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
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