Jimmy Wales Quotes
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If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.
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EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.
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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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My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.
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I think that argument is completely morally bankrupt, and I think people know that when they make it. There's a very big difference between having a sincere, passionate interest in a topic and being a paid shill. Particularly for PR firms, it's something they should really very strongly avoid: ever touching an article.
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The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.
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I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.
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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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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'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
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I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
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We are still in the very beggining of the Internet. Let's use it wisely.
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
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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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It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.
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Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so.
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Myspace hurts my eyes.
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Our growth rate continues to be staggering.
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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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It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of information. (Jimmy Wales, IB World, 68, Sept. 2013, p.10. )
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What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
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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 don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.
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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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I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby.
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.
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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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While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.
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Dialing down is not an option for me.
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