Jimmy Wales quotes - page 3

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. (Jimmy Wales)
Free speech includes the right to not speak. View quote
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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks. View quote
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There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily. View quote
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People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting. View quote
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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians. View quote
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Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good. View quote
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We're already taking back the Internet. With your help, we can take back the world. View quote
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A few things are absolute and non-negotiable, though. NPOV for example. View quote
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It's of course a very very big deal to do something like this, it is unprecedented for English Wikipedia. View quote
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When someone just writes 'f**k, f**k, f**k', we just fix it, laugh and move on. (Jimmy Wales)
We are a passionate community of volunteers who are trying to create a free encyclopedia for every single person on the planet. View quote
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If people could treat others as though they were speaking face to face, that would be huge. View quote
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You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view. View quote
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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. View quote
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Our growth rate continues to be staggering. View quote
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I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company. View quote
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag. View quote
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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. View quote
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Dialing down is not an option for me. View quote
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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. (Jimmy Wales)
Wikis and social networking are just tools. View quote
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I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do. View quote
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international. View quote
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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. View quote
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