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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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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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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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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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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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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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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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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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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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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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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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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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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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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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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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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