177 Quotes by Jimmy Wales

It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of information. (Jimmy Wales, IB World, 68, Sept. 2013, p.10. )

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

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.

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.

IAR is policy, always has been.

I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby...

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.

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.