My being some kind of celebrity – not a real celebrity, isn’t a welcome part of the job. – 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
What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge – the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it. – Jimmy Wales
Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it’s a bunch of random people interacting. – Jimmy Wales
There’s a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily. – 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 have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We’re doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way. – Jimmy Wales
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. – 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 a free encyclopedia. It’s like hating kittens. – Jimmy Wales
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. – 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 very important part of what holds our project together. – Jimmy Wales
