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" A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial. "
Jimmy Wales
People
Work
Money
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" I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really. "
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" I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same. "
Jimmy Wales
Treat
Think
Same
" 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
Together
Important
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" 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. "
Jimmy Wales
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Fun
" We don't need secrecy. "
Jimmy Wales
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. "
Jimmy Wales
People
Knowledge
Going
" 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
Impact
Stories
People
" I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great. "
Jimmy Wales
Authority
Think
People
" I think that reality exists and that it's knowable. "
Jimmy Wales
Think
Reality
Exists
" Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting. "
Jimmy Wales
Know
People
Group
" My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world. "
Jimmy Wales
World
Free
Single
" I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can. "
Jimmy Wales
Get
Up
Schedule
" There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily. "
Jimmy Wales
Toward
Big
Closed
" I can't do anything quietly anymore. "
Jimmy Wales
Anymore
Anything
Quietly
" Dialing down is not an option for me. "
Jimmy Wales
Option
Down
Me
" Our growth rate continues to be staggering. "
Jimmy Wales
Rate
Staggering
Growth
" You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view. "
Jimmy Wales
Source
You
Sole
" 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
I Am
Quality
My Life
" I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company. "
Jimmy Wales
Real
Good
Company
" The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way. "
Jimmy Wales
Free
World
People
" People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting. "
Jimmy Wales
Things
People
Interesting
" 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. "
Jimmy Wales
Knowledge
World
Doing
" I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought. "
Jimmy Wales
Big
Thought
Freedom Of Speech
" 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
Care
Take Care
People