Quotes By Jimmy Wales

Dialing down is not an option for me.

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

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

I am really accessible.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

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.

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

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

We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.

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

I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.

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

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

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

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.

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

I can't do anything quietly anymore.

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.

If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.

Wikis and social networking are just tools.

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.

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

We don't need secrecy.

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

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