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

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

— Jimmy Wales

I think that argument is completely morally bankrupt, and I think people know that when they make it. There's a very big…

— 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

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

Wikis and social networking are just tools.

— 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

It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift.

— Jimmy Wales

Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— 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

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

— Jimmy Wales

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese…

— Jimmy Wales

In general, the best advice I can give people is to take criticism seriously, apologize for anything you have done wrong, and…

— Jimmy Wales

Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single…

— Jimmy Wales

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

— Jimmy Wales

I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like…

— 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