A biography for Jimmy Waleshasn’t been written yet.
“Dialing down is not an option for me.”
“You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.”
“Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.”
“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.”
“It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.”
“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.”
“I can't do anything quietly anymore.”
“I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.”
“I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.”
“Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.”
“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 think that reality exists and that it's knowable.”
“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.”
“Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.”
“Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.”
“I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.”