Jimmy Wales Quotes

Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

Social networking inspires me a lot and how we are related and connected to each other.

The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.

What the Internet is great at is building networks.

I love connected culture.

Social networking is a big boon - I agree to it.

I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.

In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

I am no technophobe. I like being able to calibrate communication, depending on the situation - texting for the simple and immediate; email for business or when I want to put some lag time into the exchange; Twitter to promote something; Facebook to draw a crowd.

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.

Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.

Wildly successful sites such as Flickr, Twitter and Facebook offer genuinely portable social experiences, on and off the desktop. You don't even have to go to Facebook or Twitter to experience Facebook and Twitter content or to share third-party web content with your Twitter and Facebook friends.

The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and of working together.

Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.

We’re going to use the Internet to keep up with our friends and let them know what we are doing. They’re going to use it to decide what kind of government they’re going to have.

Facebook takes it as a core truth that sharing and connecting is a force that will improve the world.

Real social situations are taking a back seat to social media.