Jimmy Wales Short Quotes

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We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.

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Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.

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Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information

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I regard it as a pseudonym and I don't really have a problem with it.

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EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.

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Random speculative pseudo information should be removed, unless it can be sourced.

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

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

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

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[Wikipedia is] like a sausage: you might like the taste of it, but you don't necessarily want to see how it's made.

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Real people are involved, and they can be hurt by your words. We are not tabloid journalism, we are an encyclopedia.

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What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

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

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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.

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Quite frankly, several of the people who contributed to the article should be banned from coming near a keyboard until they have learned to engage in proper encyclopedia writing.

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I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.

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Hayek's work on price theory is central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project. … One can't understand my ideas about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek.

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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?

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To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work, I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor; it's the work that matters.

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