In general, the best advice I can give people is to take criticism seriously, apologize for anything you have done wrong, and… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
I think MySpace is doomed, I give them about two more years… I think Facebook is the next Microsoft in both the… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives. — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
I think that argument is completely morally bankrupt, and I think people know that when they make it. There's a very big difference between… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
The core community is passionate about quality and getting it right. If you want to read some good criticisms of Wikipedia, probably the best place to go is to the Wikipedia article called 'criticisms of Wikipedia'... It was either the dumbest thing or the smartest thing I ever did. The dumbest thing for the obvious reasons, but the smartest thing… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share
The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up. — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work. — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same. — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift. — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
