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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. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#always #big #bigger #course #creating

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#bad #being #east #fed #goes

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#college #i #interest #international #kind

I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

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I still believe there is a need to open up search and it will come eventually. It is very important to challenge the current models. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#challenge #come #current #eventually #i

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#back #beat #come #day #free

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. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#encyclopedia #free #general #hard #hate

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

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

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

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