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

Jimmy Wales

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

Jimmy Wales

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

Jimmy Wales

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

Jimmy Wales

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

Jimmy Wales

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

Jimmy Wales

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

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

Jimmy Wales

Our growth rate continues to be staggering.

Jimmy Wales

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.

Jimmy Wales

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

Jimmy Wales

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

Jimmy Wales

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

Jimmy Wales

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

Jimmy Wales

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.

Jimmy Wales

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

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

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

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

Jimmy Wales

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having ...

Jimmy Wales

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

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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