Top 80 Jimmy Wales Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.”

— Jimmy Wales

52. “I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do.”

— Jimmy Wales

53. “Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.”

— Jimmy Wales

54. “I have zero interest in sports of any kind – professional, college or international.”

— Jimmy Wales

55. “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

56. “The more time I spent on the site the more I came to think of Wales as some kind of Queen Ant, letting the vast colony go about its work, at the centre of a system where the knowledge of the community is infinitely larger than the sum of experience of all its individuals.”

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

59. “I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.”

— Jimmy Wales

60. “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.”

— Jimmy Wales

61. “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.”

— Jimmy Wales

62. “EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.”

— Jimmy Wales

63. “What you don’t get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.”

— Jimmy Wales

64. “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.”

— Jimmy Wales

65. “Myspace hurts my eyes.”

— Jimmy Wales

66. “My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.”

— Jimmy Wales

67. “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.”

— Jimmy Wales

68. “There’s kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.”

— Jimmy Wales

69. “People do fun and interesting things because they’re fun and interesting.”

— Jimmy Wales

70. “I don’t come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.”

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

72. “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.”

— Jimmy Wales

73. “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

74. “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

75. “You shouldn’t use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.”

— Jimmy Wales

76. “It’s kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.”

— Jimmy Wales

77. “I’m not real good at the administrative part of running a company.”

— Jimmy Wales

78. “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.”

— Jimmy Wales

79. “I’m very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.”

— Jimmy Wales

80. “I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.”

— Jimmy Wales

81. “Our growth rate continues to be staggering.”

— Jimmy Wales

82. “There’s a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.”

— Jimmy Wales

83. “Dialing down is not an option for me.”

— Jimmy Wales

84. “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.”

— Jimmy Wales

85. “My being some kind of celebrity – not a real celebrity, isn’t a welcome part of the job.”

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales