Quotes from Jimmy Wales

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

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

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

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

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

Our growth rate continues to be staggering.

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

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 care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

You know when I think about what I'm doing - what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work.

Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.

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

I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.

Dialing down is not an option for me.

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

I am really accessible.

I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.

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

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.