Jimmy Wales

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. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#beer #encyclopedia #every #free #free speech

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

— Jimmy Wales

#chinese #controversial #issues #mainland #point

The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#computer #court #done #face #facts

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Jimmy Wales

#argue #kind #pressure #real #social

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#create #distribute #doing #encyclopedia #every

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#internet #still #very

We don't need secrecy. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#secrecy

We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#internet #let us #think #together #tool

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. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#being #being ignored #blogs #grassroots #had