Jimmy Wales Quotes: top 62 famous quotes about Jimmy Wales

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

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material. — Jimmy Wales

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured. — Jimmy Wales

Dialing down is not an option for me. — Jimmy Wales

We are still in the very beggining of the Internet. Let's use it wisely. — Jimmy Wales

Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me. — Jimmy Wales

EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom. — Jimmy Wales

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international. — Jimmy Wales

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life. — Jimmy Wales

The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint. — Jimmy Wales

Our growth rate continues to be staggering. — Jimmy Wales

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 ... — 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

I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company. — Jimmy Wales

It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work. — Jimmy Wales

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view. — 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

Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education. — 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

People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting. — Jimmy Wales

I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do. — 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

When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia. — 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

People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag. — 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

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. — Jimmy Wales

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things. — Jimmy Wales

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. — 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

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. — Jimmy Wales

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks. — Jimmy Wales

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist. — Jimmy Wales