Jimmy Wales quote: "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."

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
JIMMY WALES

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reason...
JIMMY WALES

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, a...
JIMMY WALES

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to dissemi...
JIMMY WALES

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person ...
JIMMY WALES

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
JIMMY WALES

Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever d...
JIMMY WALES

Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.
JIMMY WALES

We delete things that are not good. They're taken down for good reasons.
JIMMY WALES

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all hu...
JIMMY WALES

Free speech includes the right to not speak.
JIMMY WALES

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; to...
JIMMY WALES

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
JIMMY WALES

People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to ha...
JIMMY WALES

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

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch...
JIMMY WALES

We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway o...
JIMMY WALES

Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly...
JIMMY WALES

The bigger it gets and the more people stumble across it, the more people are interested in voluntee...
JIMMY WALES

I'm learning German, ... You couldn't learn German just from a textbook...So I'm learning from audio...
JIMMY WALES

I joke a lot that (choosing to be a nonprofit) was either the best thing or the worst thing I've eve...
JIMMY WALES

Our growth rate continues to be staggering.
JIMMY WALES

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be ab...
JIMMY WALES

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

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discours...
JIMMY WALES

I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website....
JIMMY WALES

The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to s...
JIMMY WALES

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.
JIMMY WALES

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need...
JIMMY WALES

The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the ...
JIMMY WALES

And that's minimal compared to what's being reported directly to insurance companies. This morning c...
NANCY WALES

It's great conditions out, so I can't blame them.
DOUG WALES

There is certainly no talk of (building a Nordic jump) right now.
DOUG WALES

We're fortunate there's very little wind. It's a beautiful day out. You just have to be dressed for ...
DOUG WALES

Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.
JIMMY DEAN

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
JIMMY CARTER

No matter what Sarah Palin and these geniuses she surrounds herself with try to tell you, climate ch...
JIMMY KIMMEL

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to...
JIMMY PAGE

I'm a creative consultant, whatever that means.
JIMMY KIMMEL

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
JIMMY DEAN

Be kind to people on the way up - you'll meet them again on your way down.
JIMMY DURANTE

I do have a treadmill desk in my office, and for a while, I would walk on it while checking email an...
JIMMY KIMMEL

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them ...
JIMMY CARTER

I have a lot of stories to tell because I've been down a lot of roads people haven't been.
JIMMY WALKER

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
JIMMY CARTER

There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense pr...
JIMMY SMITS

Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colle...
JIMMY BRESLIN

Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Pat...
JIMMY IOVINE

Bruce Springsteen gave people faith in rock & roll and in themselves again.
JIMMY IOVINE

My life changed because Bruce Springsteen got on a mic in front of me.
JIMMY IOVINE

Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.
JIMMY BRESLIN

I was brought up in the Boys' Brigade and grew up not swearing. It's so lovely to behave dec...
JIMMY HILL

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.
JIMMY RUSHING

I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin...
JIMMY DEAN

My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done i...
JIMMY DEAN

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
JIMMY DEAN

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can...
JIMMY DEAN

I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hand...
JIMMY DEAN

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's lik...
JIMMY DEAN

A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as...
JIMMY DEAN

When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat,...
JIMMY DEAN

I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, ...
JIMMY DEAN

I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.
JIMMY DEAN

Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
JIMMY DEAN

Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.
JIMMY DEAN

I definitely feel pressure to keep slim. I don't want to be the guy who lost weight and gained i...
JIMMY KIMMEL

Becoming a parent has changed the risk calculus for me. But it might be age, too, and seeing a lot o...
JIMMY CHIN

People say, 'Are you insane?' But the most successful climbers are the most calculating, wit...
JIMMY CHIN

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.
JIMMY FALLON

On Monday and Thursday, I eat fewer than 500 calories a day; then I eat like a pig for the other fiv...
JIMMY KIMMEL

My first guitar was like a campfire guitar. And it was left at a house that my family had moved into...
JIMMY PAGE

Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.
JIMMY SMITS

I think it's prima facie evidence for the existence of God because for me to grow up and actuall...
JIMMY WEBB

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest ...
JIMMY BRESLIN

I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.
JIMMY PIERSALL

After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the ...
JIMMY CARR

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism,...
JIMMY CARTER

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president h...
JIMMY BRESLIN

I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell ...
JIMMY SWAGGART

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures i...
JIMMY REID

Parliamentarian rules, the rules of the House, how you get bills referred, really the nuts and bolts...
JIMMY GOMEZ

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?.
JIMMY DEAN

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
JIMMY DEAN

There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of m...
JIMMY CARTER

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
JIMMY CANNON

'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.
JIMMY PAGE

Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
JIMMY PAGE

When I was still in the Yardbirds, our producer, Mickie Most, would always try to get us to record a...
JIMMY PAGE

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker t...
JIMMY CARTER

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
JIMMY JOHNSON

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.
JIMMY STEWART

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.
JIMMY CARTER

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It...
JIMMY CARTER

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guit...
JIMMY PAGE

I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
JIMMY HOFFA

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows wh...
JIMMY BRESLIN

Older and wiser voices can always help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
JIMMY BUFFETT

Some people never find it, some only pretend, but I just want to live happily ever after every now a...
JIMMY BUFFETT

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
JIMMY CARTER

Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the Pres...
JIMMY CARTER

According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge...
JIMMY CARTER

I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I ...
JIMMY CARTER

Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford a...
JIMMY CARTER

All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke...
JIMMY BRESLIN

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for news...
JIMMY BRESLIN

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
JIMMY DEAN

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
JIMMY CARTER

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make y...
JIMMY CONNORS

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?
JIMMY CONNORS

I hate to lose more than I love to win.
JIMMY CONNORS

People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't ...
JIMMY CONNORS

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, t...
JIMMY CONNORS

If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.
JIMMY BUFFETT

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.
JIMMY DURANTE

I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.
JIMMY CARTER

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.
JIMMY BUFFETT

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.
JIMMY BUFFETT

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned ...
JIMMY CONNORS

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
JIMMY CARTER

If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.
JIMMY BUFFETT

Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a relea...
JIMMY CARTER

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows w...
JIMMY BRESLIN

Media, the plural of mediocrity.
JIMMY BRESLIN

The only reason this country is different from any place else is that once in a great while, this hu...
JIMMY BRESLIN

We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and som...
JIMMY CARTER

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking i...
JIMMY BRESLIN

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different y...
JIMMY CARTER

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
JIMMY BUFFETT

Use it or lose it.
JIMMY CONNORS

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.
JIMMY STEWART

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
JIMMY BRESLIN

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
JIMMY JOHNSON

We are the people our parents warned us about.
JIMMY BUFFETT

Surviving and thriving as a professional today demands two new approaches to the written word. First...
JIMMY CALANO

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try...
JIMMY CONNORS

This nation has dehumanized its adversaries calling them Huns, wops, gooks, Japs.
JIMMY CARTER

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I wil...
JIMMY CARTER

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human ...
JIMMY CARTER

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime
JIMMY CANNON

I hate music, especially when it's played.
JIMMY DURANTE

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
JIMMY DEMARET

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
JIMMY CARTER

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not...
JIMMY DEAN

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the ...
JIMMY CARTER

Led Zeppelin was an affair of the heart. Each of the members was important to the sum total of what ...
JIMMY PAGE

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.
JIMMY SWAGGART

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God kno...
JIMMY CARTER

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New ...
JIMMY CARTER

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader...
JIMMY FALLON

We tend to think of World War II and all the atrocities that happened, and people say, 'Never ag...
JIMMY SMITS

The instruments that bleed into each other are what creates the ambience. Once you start cleaning ev...
JIMMY PAGE

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that'...
JIMMY PAGE

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did every...
JIMMY CARTER

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obam...
JIMMY CARTER

I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in...
JIMMY CARR

There's a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level...
JIMMY CARTER

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in...
JIMMY CARTER

It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk...
JIMMY CLIFF

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
JIMMY BUFFETT

I wanted to be a Priest at one point. I was pretty religious. I was an altar boy, and I was good at ...
JIMMY FALLON

You learn over years of expeditions that having faith, and putting one foot in front of the other, y...
JIMMY CHIN

'Have fun' is my message. Be silly. You're allowed to be silly. There's nothing wron...
JIMMY FALLON

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.
JIMMY DEAN

The thing I like about astronomy is being outside at night and seeing the stars in a dark sky. It ma...
JIMMY WALKER

Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In d...
JIMMY REID

Thank you, hard taco shells, for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plat...
JIMMY FALLON

You do wonder - when you are at 28,000 feet, the height that aeroplanes cruise at, when you are stru...
JIMMY CHIN

I am always concerned with finding the right spot and the right shot, so sometimes I forget to appre...
JIMMY CHIN

I lose anywhere up to 20 pounds on location with adventurers like Conrad Anker or Brady Robinson. So...
JIMMY CHIN

Thank you, yard sales, for being the perfect way to say to your neighbors: 'We think we're i...
JIMMY FALLON

Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high...
JIMMY FALLON

Thank you... fat dude with giant headphones on the subway, for looking like what would've happen...
JIMMY FALLON

Thank you, people who say 'Wow, you're really photogenic,' for not saying what you reall...
JIMMY FALLON

There's always going to be someone out there... who doesn't believe in you or who thinks you...
JIMMY FALLON

I'd be nothing without my wife. She's the coolest. She's the greatest. She is the smarte...
JIMMY FALLON

You only think of the best comeback when you leave.
JIMMY FALLON

I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake a...
JIMMY FALLON

I don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos.
JIMMY FALLON

I like to see people laugh who are normally serious.
JIMMY FALLON

In New York, there are so many potholes, they're like craters on the moon. That's another tr...
JIMMY FALLON

I don't like to kick people when they're down. I like to kick people when they're up.
JIMMY FALLON

If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of ...
JIMMY FALLON

Thank you... motion sensor hand towel machine. You never work, so I just end up looking like I'm...
JIMMY FALLON

I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive.
JIMMY FALLON

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way...
JIMMY FALLON

I'm going to North Pole to help out Santa this year.
JIMMY FALLON

L.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I th...
JIMMY FALLON

Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dang...
JIMMY FALLON

Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.
JIMMY FALLON

The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.
JIMMY FALLON

Everyone looks so much better when they smile.
JIMMY FALLON

I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that...
JIMMY IOVINE

I truly believe the intention of creating positive change is so important to the collective consciou...
JIMMY CHIN

The par putts sometimes are bigger than the birdie putts.
JIMMY WALKER

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
JIMMY CARTER

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he neve...
JIMMY CARTER

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
JIMMY CARTER

We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Lu...
JIMMY CARTER

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a go...
JIMMY CARTER

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a...
JIMMY CARTER

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.

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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.

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