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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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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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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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Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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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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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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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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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 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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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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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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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 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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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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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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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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