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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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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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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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 zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.
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IAR is policy, always has been.
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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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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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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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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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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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Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.
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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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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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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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