Quote

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of true scientific discourse. It isn't.

Jimmy Wales

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
Blogger
Businessperson
Computer Scientist
Entrepreneur
Internet Entrepreneur
Researcher
Wikimedian
Huntsville
Alabama
Jimbo Wales
Jimmy Donal Wales
Jimbo
Jimmy Donal Jimbo Wales
Pretend
Scientific
True
Work
Charlatans
Lunatic
Equivalent
Discourse

More quotes by Jimmy Wales

Image
It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
Jimmy Wales
Image
I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
Jimmy Wales
Image
IAR is policy, always has been.
Jimmy Wales
Image
A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
Jimmy Wales
Image
People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
Jimmy Wales
Image
I can't do anything quietly anymore.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
Jimmy Wales
Image
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.
Jimmy Wales
Image
You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
Jimmy Wales
Image
Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.
Jimmy Wales
Image
I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way
Jimmy Wales