Jimmy Wales Quotations

We delete things that are not good. They're taken down for good reasons.

I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.

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

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

Wikis and social networking are just tools.

The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.

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

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

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 Internet is allowing for us to really experience people in some of the most distant places in the world - as other people just like us. So get to know people, seek out bloggers from a country you're kind of curious about. It's about building empathy and breaking through to the point of recognizing people as people.