Jimmy Wales

Myspace hurts my eyes.

— Jimmy Wales

Dialing down is not an option for me.

— Jimmy Wales

I am really accessible.

— Jimmy Wales

We don't need secrecy.

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

Wikis and social networking are just tools.

— Jimmy Wales

Our growth rate continues to be staggering.

— Jimmy Wales

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.

— Jimmy Wales

I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to…

— Jimmy Wales

Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

Ideally, our rules should be formed in such a fashion that an ordinary helpful kind thoughtful person doesn't really even need to…

— Jimmy Wales

You know, when I think about what I'm doing, what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to…

— Jimmy Wales

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in…

— Jimmy Wales

The more time I spent on the site the more I came to think of Wales as some kind of Queen Ant,…

— Jimmy Wales

I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the…

— Jimmy Wales

When I was growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, this is where the space and rocket center was. This is where all of…

— Jimmy Wales

There's plenty of rude stuff online. People say things online that they would be ashamed to say face to face. If people…

— Jimmy Wales

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate…

— Jimmy Wales

We are Wikipedians. This means that we should be: kind, thoughtful, passionate about getting it right, open, tolerant of different viewpoints, open…

— Jimmy Wales

“..civility took root at Wikipedia. It grew into a social norm...But sometimes, even the toughest social norms aren’t enough. We found there…

— Jimmy Wales

“Now, you may think this is all kindergarten ethics, right down to the time-out for naught kids. If so, you are correct.…

— Jimmy Wales

The core community is passionate about quality and getting it right. If you want to read some good criticisms of Wikipedia, probably…

— Jimmy Wales

I don't really agree that most academics frown when they hear Wikipedia. Most academics I find quite passionate about the concept of…

— Jimmy Wales

I can't do anything quietly anymore.

— Jimmy Wales

IAR is policy, always has been.

— Jimmy Wales

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

— Jimmy Wales