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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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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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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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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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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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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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Wikis and social networking are just tools.
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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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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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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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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To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.
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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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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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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
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I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.
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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
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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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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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