Quotes By Jimmy Wales
If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
Jimmy Wales
I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.
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
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
There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.
Jimmy Wales
The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.
Jimmy Wales
If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.
Jimmy Wales
I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.
Jimmy Wales
What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
Jimmy Wales
Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.
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.
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
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.
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
My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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