The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up. Jimmy Wales More Quotes by Jimmy Wales More Quotes From Jimmy Wales Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. Jimmy Wales internet-access business world I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought. Jimmy Wales speech freedom expression My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world. Jimmy Wales single-person persons world In general, the best advice I can give people is to take criticism seriously, apologize for anything you have done wrong, and pull back from conflict. Of course, if you are right on a content matter, you should press forward in the interest of quality, but conflict often has a way of taking on a life of its own, unfortunately. Jimmy Wales advice giving people 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. Jimmy Wales circles important together Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians. Jimmy Wales comedian stills needs The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks. Jimmy Wales party real struggle Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal. Jimmy Wales effort community goal Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting. Jimmy Wales breaking-down groups people I'm a very friendly person, and I think that's had a big impact on my work because I tend to be pretty good with not trying to always win every argument and things like that. I just sort of try to bring a lot of people together to talk. Jimmy Wales impact winning thinking We are still in the very beggining of the Internet. Let's use it wisely. Jimmy Wales internet stills use There's plenty of rude stuff online. People say things online that they would be ashamed to say face to face. If people could treat others as though they were speaking face to face, that would be huge. Jimmy Wales rude faces people To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters. Jimmy Wales smart kids school It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world. Jimmy Wales computer sitting world 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. Jimmy Wales rights people ideas You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view. Jimmy Wales source use views People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting. Jimmy Wales fun people interesting It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work. Jimmy Wales site kind people I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great. Jimmy Wales authority people thinking There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily. Jimmy Wales tendencies approach bigs
