177 Quotes by Jimmy Wales

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.

People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.

You know, when I think about what I'm doing, what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work.

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.

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

The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.