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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.

Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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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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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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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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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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 more time I spent on the site the more I came to think of Wales as some kind of Queen Ant, letting the vast colony go about its work, at the centre of a system where the knowledge of the community is infinitely larger than the sum of experience of all its individuals.
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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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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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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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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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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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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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