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Jimmy Wales

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Jimmy Wales

“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.”

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Jimmy Wales

“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.”

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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.”

Source/Notes: Quoted in Robin Roblimo Miller, Wikimedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds, Slashdot (2004-07-28)

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Jimmy Wales

“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.”

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Jimmy Wales

“My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.”

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Jimmy Wales

“Our growth rate continues to be staggering.”

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“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.”

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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.”

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Jimmy Wales

“I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.”

Source/Notes: Quoted in Robin Roblimo Miller, Wikimedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds, Slashdot (2004-07-28)

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Jimmy Wales

“like a sausage: you might like the taste of it, but you don't necessarily want to see how it's made.”

Source/Notes: Alluding to a famous quote Laws are like sausages — it is better not to see them being made., generally attributed to Otto von Bismarck.

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Jimmy Wales

“When someone just writes 'f**k, f**k, f**k', we just fix it, laugh and move on. But the difficult social issues are the borderline cases — people who do some good work, but who are also a pain in the neck.”

Source/Notes: Who knows?, The Guardian (26 October 2004)

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Jimmy Wales

“Ideally, our rules should be formed in such a fashion that an ordinary helpful kind thoughtful person doesn't really even need to know the rules. You just get to work, do something fun, and nobody hassles you as long as you are being thoughtful and kind.”

Source/Notes: User talk statement (7 April 2005)

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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.”

Source/Notes: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia - TED Talk (July 2005)

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Jimmy Wales

“We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?”

Source/Notes: As quoted in ExpressIndia (7 September 2005)

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