177 Quotes by Jimmy Wales

My being some kind of celebrity – not a real celebrity, isn’t a welcome part of the job.

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.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge – the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

There’s plenty of rude stuff online. People say things online that they would be ashamed to say face to face. If people could treat others as though they were speaking face to face, that would be huge.

I don’t come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.

I’m a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

I’m a very friendly person, and I think that’s had a big impact on my work because I tend to be pretty good with not trying to always win every argument and things like that. I just sort of try to bring a lot of people together to talk.

I think it’s a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person’s really smart and they’re doing fantastic work, I don’t care if they’re a high school kid or a Harvard professor; it’s the work that matters.