Jimmy Wales Quotes - Page 3

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

I don't really agree that most academics frown when they hear Wikipedia. Most academics I find quite passionate about the concept of Wikipedia and like it quite a bit. The number of academics who really really don't like Wikipedia is really quite small and we find that they get reported on in the media far out of proportion to the amount they actually exist.

When I was growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, this is where the space and rocket center was. This is where all of the German rocket scientists came after war and started designing rockets for NASA, for the moon landing and all that.

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.

Myspace hurts my eyes.

I think that argument is completely morally bankrupt, and I think people know that when they make it. There's a very big difference between having a sincere, passionate interest in a topic and being a paid shill. Particularly for PR firms, it's something they should really very strongly avoid: ever touching an article.

We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.

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

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

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.

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

I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.

I can't do anything quietly anymore.

I am really accessible.

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

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.

The core community is passionate about quality and getting it right. If you want to read some good criticisms of Wikipedia, probably the best place to go is to the Wikipedia article called 'criticisms of Wikipedia'... It was either the dumbest thing or the smartest thing I ever did. The dumbest thing for the obvious reasons, but the smartest thing because I don't think it could have had nearly as much impact as it has. One of the key things that inspired people to put a lot into it (was the charity aspect).

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

We don't need secrecy.

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.

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.

Our growth rate continues to be staggering.

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.

IAR is policy, always has been.