177 Quotes by Jimmy Wales

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.

My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.

Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.

When I was growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, this is where the space and rocket center was. This is where all of the German rocket scientists came after war and started designing rockets for NASA, for the moon landing and all that.

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way

A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.