Jimmy Wales Quotes (58 quotes)

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„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.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.“
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„Wikis and social networking are just tools.“
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„What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.“
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„There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.“
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„People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.“
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„People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.“
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„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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„Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.“
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„Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.“
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„It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.“
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„If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.“
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„I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.“
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„I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.“
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„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.“
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„Our growth rate continues to be staggering.“
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„My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.“
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„I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.“
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Jimmy Wales
Author born: August 07, 1966
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Businessman

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