Jimmy Wales Quotes

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

Freedom, Thought, Big

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

Whenever, Schedule, Regular

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

End, Computer, Sitting

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

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.
Jimmy Wales

Knowledge, Big, Idea

I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.
Jimmy Wales

Positive, Fun, Big

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 to worry about getting mugged.
Jimmy Wales

Good, Freedom, Government

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.
Jimmy Wales

Work, Down, Group

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.
Jimmy Wales

Knowledge, Help, Put

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

Bad, Goes, Middle

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

Work, Money, Mind

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.
Jimmy Wales

Important, Long, Three

Dialing down is not an option for me.
Jimmy Wales

Free speech includes the right to not speak.
Jimmy Wales

Free, Speak, Speech

I am really accessible.
Jimmy Wales

I can't do anything quietly anymore.
Jimmy Wales

Anymore, Quietly

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

Simple, Down, Place

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

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

Sports, College, Interest

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

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.
Jimmy Wales

Important, Challenge, Open

I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.
Jimmy Wales

Time, Bad, Happen

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

Knowledge, Different, Same

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

Great, Authority, Weren

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

Reality, Exists

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: August 7, 1966

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