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Jimmy Wales Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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.

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'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.



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

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



The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.

The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.



Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.



We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?

We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?



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.

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.



Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.



A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.



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.

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.





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I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense



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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.



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It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.

It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.



I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.

I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.




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