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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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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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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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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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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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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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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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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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.
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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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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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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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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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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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