Quotes By 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
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
It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.
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
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
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
The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.
Jimmy Wales
I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
Jimmy Wales
I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
Jimmy Wales
A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.
Jimmy Wales
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.
Jimmy Wales