Jimmy Wales Quotes
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Jimmy Wales Quotes & Sayings
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Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives.
— Jimmy Wales
Dialing down is not an option for me.
— Jimmy Wales
Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
— Jimmy Wales
Our growth rate continues to be staggering.
— Jimmy Wales
I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
— Jimmy Wales
What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.
— Jimmy Wales
Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.
— Jimmy Wales
The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
— Jimmy Wales
IAR is policy, always has been.
— Jimmy Wales
We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.
— Jimmy Wales
There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.
— Jimmy Wales
It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift.
— Jimmy Wales
I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
— Jimmy Wales
I can't do anything quietly anymore.
— Jimmy Wales
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.
— Jimmy Wales
Free speech includes the right to not speak.
— Jimmy Wales
My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.
— Jimmy Wales
Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
— Jimmy Wales
A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
— Jimmy Wales
I am really accessible.
— Jimmy Wales
We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.
— Jimmy Wales
I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
— Jimmy Wales
A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.
— Jimmy Wales
Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.
— Jimmy Wales
We don't need secrecy.
— Jimmy Wales
We don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying.
— Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.
— Jimmy Wales
It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.
— Jimmy Wales
Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.
— Jimmy Wales
I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
— Jimmy Wales
Myspace hurts my eyes.
— Jimmy Wales
I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
— Jimmy Wales
If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
— Jimmy Wales
Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
— Jimmy Wales
My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
— Jimmy Wales
The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.
— Jimmy Wales
Wikis and social networking are just tools.
— Jimmy Wales
I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.
— Jimmy Wales
I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.
— Jimmy Wales
