177 Quotes by Jimmy Wales

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.

The Internet is allowing for us to really experience people in some of the most distant places in the world - as other people just like us. So get to know people, seek out bloggers from a country you're kind of curious about. It's about building empathy and breaking through to the point of recognizing people as people.

We don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying.

When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.

When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.

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.

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