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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of true scientific discourse. It isn't.
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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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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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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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We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
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Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.
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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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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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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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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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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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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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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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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