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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 have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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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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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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