Jimmy Wales Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

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

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

Dialing down is not an option for me.

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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