Jimmy Wales Quotes

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

Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.

We have to come together, worldwide, and "think". We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.

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?

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.

It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

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

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

People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.

Dialing down is not an option for me.

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

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

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.

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

People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

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

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

We are still in the very beggining of the Internet. Let's use it wisely.

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

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

The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.

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

My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

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

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

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