Quotes By Jimmy Wales

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

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.

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

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.

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

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.

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.

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.

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.

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

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

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.

I am really accessible.

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.

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.