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

We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.

— Jimmy Wales

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

— Jimmy Wales

Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.

— Jimmy Wales

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— 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

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

We don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying.

— Jimmy Wales

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

— 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

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it…

— Jimmy Wales

I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of…

— Jimmy Wales

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own…

— Jimmy Wales

The Internet is allowing for us to really experience people in some of the most distant places in the world - as…

— Jimmy Wales

We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City…

— Jimmy Wales

It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of…

— Jimmy Wales

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…

— Jimmy Wales

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.

— Jimmy Wales

People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of…

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some…

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very…

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

I still believe there is a need to open up search and it will come eventually. It is very important to challenge…

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales