Jimmy Wales

“(ויקיפדיה היא) כמו נקניקייה, ייתכן שאתה תאהב את הטעם שלה, אבל אתה לא בהכרח רוצה לדעת איך הכינו אותה.”

“דמיינו עולם שבו לכל אדם יש גישה חופשית למכלול הידע האנושי. זה מה שאנחנו עושים.”

“If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“We don't need secrecy.”

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

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

“I am really accessible.”

“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.”

“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 not real good at the administrative part of running a company.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.”