Quotes by Jimmy Wales

About Jimmy Wales:

Jimmy Donal is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the for-profit Wikia web hosting company.
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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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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

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

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

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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.

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

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The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.

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

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Free speech includes the right to not speak.

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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.

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

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Wikis and social networking are just tools.

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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.

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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.

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I can't do anything quietly anymore.

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

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Dialing down is not an option for me.

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

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We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

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It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.

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Author Bio

  • NameJimmy Wales
  • DescriptionWikipedia co-founder and American Internet entrepreneur
  • AliasesJimbo Wales; Jimmy Donal Wales; Jimbo; Wales, Jimmy
  • BornAugust 7, 1966
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTrader; Businessperson; Blogger; Entrepreneur
  • AwardsQuadriga; EFF Pioneer Award; Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize; UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal