American - Businessman | August 7, 1966 -
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
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If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
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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.
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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
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Dialing down is not an option for me.
MeDownOption
The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
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My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.
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People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do.
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We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.
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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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