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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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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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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 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 can't do anything quietly anymore.
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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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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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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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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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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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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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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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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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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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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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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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IAR is policy, always has been.
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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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