Quotes By Jimmy Wales

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.

I can't do anything quietly anymore.

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

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.

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

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

We don't need secrecy.

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

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

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

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.

Our growth rate continues to be staggering.

I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

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.

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

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.

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.