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Jimmy Wales
American
Businessman
Born:
Aug 7
,
1966
Every
Free
People
Think
World
You
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If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.
Jimmy Wales
Google
Exist
I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
Jimmy Wales
Freedom
Thought
Freedom Of Speech
Big
Freedom Of Expression
Advocate
Expression
Speech
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.
Jimmy Wales
Time
Will
Three
Think
Nuts
Bad
Eat
Seem
Potato
Superstition
Tend
Know
Happen
Anything
Chips
Really
Grapes
Why
Right
Things
Four
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.
Jimmy Wales
Time
Hate
People
Free
Wikipedia
Kind
Hating
General
Individual
Kittens
Take
Idea
Like
Issue
Encyclopedia
Aspects
Hard
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.
Jimmy Wales
People
Being Ignored
Seen
Press
Impact
Various
Points
Had
Journalism
How
Traditional
Were
Blogs
Politically
Being
Stories
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Ignored
Grassroots
Amplified
Our growth rate continues to be staggering.
Jimmy Wales
Our
Rate
Staggering
Growth
Growth Rate
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.
Jimmy Wales
Love
Together
Important
Our
Project
Circles
Say
Frankly
About
Part
Stuff
Important Part
Lot
Very
Holds
Popular
Technical
People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.
Jimmy Wales
People
Care
Minority
Community
Bad
Only
Take
Take Care
Takes
Smallest
Tiny
Wants
Fundamentally
Disrupt
My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.
Jimmy Wales
World
Free
Single
Every
Concept
Single Person
Provide
Encyclopedia
Person
Original
I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.
Jimmy Wales
Good
Administrative
Running
Part
Real
Company
If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
Jimmy Wales
You
Yourself
See
About
Misconception
Blatant
Error
Want
Straight
Really
Set
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
Life
Quality
Language
Free
My Life
Single
Own
Every
Possible
Distribute
Highest
Am
Single Person
Doing
Goal
Encyclopedia
Person
Create
Planet
Who
There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
Jimmy Wales
Pressure
Kind
About
Argue
Real
Social
Things
Dialing down is not an option for me.
Jimmy Wales
Me
Down
Option
People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
Jimmy Wales
People
Find
Voice
Bag
Mixed
Achieved
Public
Who
I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do.
Jimmy Wales
Day
Every Day
Every
Seems
Like
Most
Up
Get
Just
Interesting
Fun
Fun Thing
Thing
The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.
Jimmy Wales
Tend
Point
Point Of View
Taiwanese
Take
Another
Issues
Controversial
Chinese
View
Viewpoint
It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.
Jimmy Wales
Me
World
Would
Computer
Over
Occur
End
Up
Sitting
Just
Travelling
I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.
Jimmy Wales
Schedule
Up
Get
Whenever
Regular
I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
Jimmy Wales
Sports
College
Kind
Any
Interest
International
Professional
Zero
Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
Jimmy Wales
Life
Try
Approach
Rational
Take
Mostly
I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
Jimmy Wales
Nature
Worry
Just
Really
You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
Jimmy Wales
You
Sole
Source
Anything
View
Use
I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.
Jimmy Wales
Simple
Down
Come
Any
Place
Wikis and social networking are just tools.
Jimmy Wales
Tools
Networking
Just
Social
I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
Jimmy Wales
World
Censorship
Worry
About
Parts
Many
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