Jimmy Wales Quotes

All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.

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.

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.

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

Make information free for all.

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.

So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state.

I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.

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.

Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.

Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible.

The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.

I'm trying to change the way people approach knowledge and information in general. I think that to try to own knowledge, to try to control whether people are allowed to use it, or to try to stop other people from sharing it, is sabotage.

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

At the end of the day, I think the more online educators there are, I think the better off the whole world is.

I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

Organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible whatever the consequences

If formerly restrictive regimes can be persuaded to see the free flow of information not as a threat to the power of sovereign states, but as the creator of a viable economic infrastructure and a population incentivised to take advantage of the new economy, the next century will be promising indeed.

There are no national frontiers to learning.

The free flow of information is vital for economic development.

The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions — knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas — become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.

Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.

For me, Sci-Hub has a value by itself, as a website where users can access knowledge. There are many websites where you can see pictures, share tweets, download music, read ebooks. And Sci-Hub is a website where you can read research articles.