Jimmy Wales Quotes

It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

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.

Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

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

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

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

Dialing down is not an option for me.

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.

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

I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.

People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.

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

Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.

We have to come together, worldwide, and "think". We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.

Myspace hurts my eyes.

It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift.

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

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

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

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.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

IAR is policy, always has been.

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.

I can't do anything quietly anymore.

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