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Jimmy Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of Wikipedia. His work helped make free access to knowledge available to people worldwide. He continues to advocate for open information and digital rights. Here are 117 of his quotes:

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great. (Jimmy Wales)
We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet. View quote
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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job. View quote
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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight. View quote
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We don't need secrecy. View quote
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I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really. View quote
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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. View quote
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life. View quote
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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. View quote
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People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens. View quote
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I am really accessible. (Jimmy Wales)
I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I worry about censorship in many parts of the world. View quote
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Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with. View quote
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If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks. View quote
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Most people understand the need for neutrality. The real struggle is not between the right and the left - that's where most people assume - but it's between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks. And no side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on either of those qualities. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Jimmy Wales)
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. View quote
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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same. View quote
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Photo: Zachary McCune, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: American Businessman
Born: August 7, 1966
Quotes count: 117
Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales

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