Quotes from Jimmy Wales

We don't need secrecy.

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

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

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.

The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

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

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

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

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

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

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

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

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

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

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

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

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

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.

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.

One of the great pillars of bad journalism is the made up storyline of "Let's you and him fight" - dreaming up conflicts and story arcs where none exists. http://qr.ae/jpY6b

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