Jimmy Wales Quotes - Page 4

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• I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby.

  Jimmy Wales

  Past, People, Hobbies

  Comment on Wikipedia Administrator's noticeboard, November 23, 2007.

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

  Jimmy Wales

  Jobs, Real, Welcome

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

  Jimmy Wales

  Real, Social Pressure, Arguing

  "Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You". www.nytimes.com. September 20, 2001.

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• Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.

  Jimmy Wales

  Views, People, Wikipedia

  "Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Gives $500,000 to Wikipedia" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 21, 2011.

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

  Jimmy Wales

  Believe, People, Wikipedia

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• 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.

  Jimmy Wales

  Optimistic, Thinking, Government

  "Q&A: Jimmy Wales Reflects on a Decade of Wikipedia". Wired.co.uk Interview, www.wired.com. January 11, 2011.

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• Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.

  Jimmy Wales

  People, Saint, Good People

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• I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

  Jimmy Wales

  Guy, Enlightenment, Kind

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• I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

  Jimmy Wales

  Worry, World, Censorship

  "Q&A: Jimmy Wales Reflects on a Decade of Wikipedia". Interview with Olivia Solon, www.wired.com. January 11, 2011.

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• Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so.

  Jimmy Wales

  Girl, People, Wikipedia

  "Answers.com and Wikimedia Foundation to Form New Partnership". Foundation-l mailing list, lists.wikimedia.org. October 23, 2005.

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

  Jimmy Wales

  Trying, Rational, Approach

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• It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of information. (Jimmy Wales, IB World, 68, Sept. 2013, p.10. )

  Jimmy Wales

  Important, Different, Research

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• When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.

  Jimmy Wales

  Creating, People, Wikipedia

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• 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.

  Jimmy Wales

  Apples, Microsoft, World

  "Open vs. Closed: Jimmy Wales on Being Open". Interview with Mathew Ingram, gigaom.com. April 29, 2010.

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• EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.

  Jimmy Wales

  Support, Request

  "Arbcom". Wikipedia-l mailing list, lists.wikimedia.org. October 17, 2007.

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

  Jimmy Wales

  Media, Mainstream, Backgrounds

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• You know when I think about what I'm doing - what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work.

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking, Important, Way

  "Q&A" with Brian Lamb, www.c-span.org. September 12, 2005.

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• When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.

  Jimmy Wales

  Wikipedia, Three, Internet

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• 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

  Done, World, Speech

  "Why Wikipedia went down at midnight". Interview with John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Wikis and social networking are just tools.

  Jimmy Wales

  Networking, Tools, Wikis

  "Interview with Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia Founder". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. June 29, 2007.

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• I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.

  Jimmy Wales

  Reading, Google, Wikipedia

  "Jimmy Wales: The Internet's Shy Evangelist". Interview with Emily Dugan, www.independent.co.uk. October 22, 2011.

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• I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.

  Jimmy Wales

  Team, People, Needs

  "Jimmy Wales: Why the recession won't kill digital media". Interview with Susan Kuchinskas, www.imediaconnection.com. March 28, 2009.

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• Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.

  Jimmy Wales

  Textbooks, Next, Bigs

  "The birth of Wikipedia". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2005.

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• I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

  Jimmy Wales

  Reading, Kind, Approach

  Source: bigthink.com

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