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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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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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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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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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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 my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.
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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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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 frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.
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When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.
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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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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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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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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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One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open they're viewed as proprietary.
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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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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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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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