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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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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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IAR is policy, always has been.
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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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Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.
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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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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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The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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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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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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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
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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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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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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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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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