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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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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 don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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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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Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.
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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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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
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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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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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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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
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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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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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