JIMMY WALES

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

If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.

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

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.

I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

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.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

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.

We don't need secrecy.

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.

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

Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.

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

I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.

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.

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

Our growth rate continues to be staggering.

The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.

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

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.

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