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Jimmy Wales [1966-0] American

Rank: 103
Businessman, Internet Entrepreneur

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and the for-profit Wikia web hosting company.

Freedom, Positive

Quote	Tags	Rank
Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.		101
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.		102
If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.		103
We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.		104
I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.	Freedom	105
I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.		106
People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.		107
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.		108
We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.		109
Free speech includes the right to not speak.		110
My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.		111
The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.		112
We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.		113
I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.		114
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.	Positive	115
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.		116
The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.		117
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.		118
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.		119
I still believe there is a need to open up search and it will come eventually. It is very important to challenge the current models.		120
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.		121
Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.		122
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.		123
We don't need secrecy.		124
I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.		125
A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.		126
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.		201
I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.		202
If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.		203
My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.		204
I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.		205
I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.		206
You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.		207
Wikis and social networking are just tools.		208
Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.		209
A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.		210
If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.		211
To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.		212
There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.		213
Our growth rate continues to be staggering.		214
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.		215
I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.		216
I can't do anything quietly anymore.		217
It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.		218
Dialing down is not an option for me.		219
People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.		220
I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do.		221
What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.		222
I am really accessible.		223
It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.		224
Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.		225
I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.		226
I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.		301
I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.		302
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.		303
There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.		304
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.		305
Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.		306

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