Top 80 Jimmy Wales Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I have zero interest in sports of any kind – professional, college or international.”

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

54. “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

55. “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

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

58. “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

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

61. “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

62. “Myspace hurts my eyes.”

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

64. “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

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

68. “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

69. “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

70. “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

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

73. “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

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

76. “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

77. “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

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales