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Quotes by Jimmy Wales - (25 quotes)

Jimmy Wales - From the Authority category:

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great. (Jimmy Wales)

Jimmy Wales - From the Belief category:

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight. (Jimmy Wales)

Jimmy Wales - From the Collaboration category:

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)

Jimmy Wales - From the Critics category:

We don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying. (Jimmy Wales)

Jimmy Wales - From the Culture category:

Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with. (Jimmy Wales)

Jimmy Wales - From the Fame category:

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity - isn't a welcome part of the job. (Jimmy Wales)

Jimmy Wales - From the Freedom category:

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought. (Jimmy Wales)

Jimmy Wales - From the Fun category:

I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do. (Jimmy Wales)

Jimmy Wales - From the Fun category:

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

Jimmy Wales - From the Importance category:

You know, when I think about what I'm doing, what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work. (Jimmy Wales)

Jimmy Wales - From the Information category:

If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist. (Jimmy Wales)

Jimmy Wales - From the Knowledge category:

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. (Jimmy Wales)

Jimmy Wales - From the Love category:

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)

Jimmy Wales - From the Mistakes category:

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same. (Jimmy Wales)

Jimmy Wales - From the Money category:

Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did. (Jimmy Wales)

Jimmy Wales - From the Reality category:

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable. (Jimmy Wales)

Jimmy Wales - From the Routine category:

I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can. (Jimmy Wales)

Jimmy Wales - From the Rules category:

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives. (Jimmy Wales)

Jimmy Wales - From the Silence category:

Free speech includes the right to not speak. (Jimmy Wales)

Jimmy Wales - From the Standards category:

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)

Jimmy Wales - From the Technology category:

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)

Jimmy Wales - From the Technology category:

We come from geek culture, we come from the free software movement, we have a lot of technologists involved. If we had done the same sort of comparison on poets or artists, I think that we would not have fared nearly as well. (Jimmy Wales)

Jimmy Wales - From the Travel category:

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world. (Jimmy Wales)

Jimmy Wales - From the Work category:

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

Jimmy Wales - From the Worth category:

The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up. (Jimmy Wales)