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Jimmy Wales
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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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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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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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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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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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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 think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
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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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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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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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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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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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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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