Quotes By Jimmy Wales

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

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.

I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.

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.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

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

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

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.

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

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.

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

I can't do anything quietly anymore.

If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.

Wikis and social networking are just tools.

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.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

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

We don't need secrecy.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

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.

Our growth rate continues to be staggering.

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

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