Quotes By Jimmy Wales

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

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

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

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

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

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

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

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

Dialing down is not an option for me.

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

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.

I am really accessible.

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I can't do anything quietly anymore.

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

Wikis and social networking are just tools.