Jimmy Wales quotes - page 5

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 don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist. (Jimmy Wales)
I can't do anything quietly anymore. View quote
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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things. View quote
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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy. View quote
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To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal. View quote
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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. View quote
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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material. View quote
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What if we could get everyone in the world together to record what they know in one place? View quote
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The primary issue is how seriously we take our chosen obligations to people in the developing world who do not have Internet connections. ... Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so.. View quote
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We are a passionate community of volunteers who are trying to create a free encyclopedia for every single person on the planet. So we don't often think in terms of competition. We are going to do what we do and we hope Google does wonderful things as well. ... If we were approaching this as a business we would think always: Oh, how can we position ourselves on the market... We just don't do any of that stuff. View quote
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I think this article was misleading in saying that I "recognized" Wikipe-tan. My removal of the sexualized version from Commons was in no way an endorsement of the standard versions. I don't like Wikipe-tan and never have. I recognize that some people do, and I'm not particularly agitated about it, but my name should not be invoked in a way that might lead some to believe that I approve. Thanks!--Jimbo Wales (talk) 11:33, 7 February 2011 (UTC) (Jimmy Wales)
Now, the UK is home to a very diverse newspaper community, a vibrant newspaper culture. We've got papers like The Sun, The Mirror, The Mail. [laughter]...we're trusted slightly more than the BBC. Now, that's a little scary -- [laughter]. View quote
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I think that's right. [replying to comment: "it should go to health care workers first"]. I'm not an expert. I just know that I'm healthy and safe at home, so it will be more helpful for others to go first. But I'm eager to take it! View quote
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The next billion people who'll get online access will enter the Internet with mobile devices. It's difficult to write Wikipedia articles on smart phones. So we're investing more and more resources to improve access for these people. View quote
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When is the last time you saw a politician talking about Aristotle's Virtues? This is what I love seeing -@RoryStewartUKpost on WT: https://wt.social/post/vg6w2a75311699787861. View quote
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I support freedom of expression. A lot of people I disagree with also support freedom of expression. If that's controversial, then someone will have to explain to me why. View quote
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I joke that I started as a kid revising the encyclopedia by stickering the one my mother bought. 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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