Jimmy Wales quotes - page 4

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great. (Jimmy Wales)
We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet. View quote
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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job. View quote
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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight. View quote
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We don't need secrecy. View quote
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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really. View quote
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We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely. View quote
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life. View quote
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The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up. View quote
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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. View quote
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I am really accessible. (Jimmy Wales)
I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world. View quote
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Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with. View quote
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If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks. View quote
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Most people understand the need for neutrality. The real struggle is not between the right and the left - that's where most people assume - but it's between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks. And no side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on either of those qualities. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Jimmy Wales)
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. View quote
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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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