Jimmy Wales

Wales, Jimmy Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The '80s: The Decade That Made Us

  2013, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Page One: Inside the New York Times

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen NBK Evolution: How Would It All Go Down Now?

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 20 on 20

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen CNN Future Summit: Virtual Worlds

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Jimmy Wales:

"People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community."

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

"We are talking to several agents and publishers about what they would be interested in."

"I joke a lot that (choosing to be a nonprofit) was either the best thing or the worst thing I've ever done. But I think that the site wouldn't have been successful with ads. People might not be so quick to contribute."

"I'm learning German, ... You couldn't learn German just from a textbook...So I'm learning from audio CDs and games."

"[For all his notoriety in global tech circles, Wales is all but invisible in Florida. Due to lack of interest, an organizer once had to cancel an event in St. Petersburg where Wales was to speak.] Like the great artists Jerry Lewis and David Hasselhoff, ... I'm only appreciated overseas."

"The bigger it gets and the more people stumble across it, the more people are interested in volunteering."

"The purpose is really contained in the word 'freely licensed,' which is to make available to anyone in the world, in any language, a curriculum that they can copy, redistribute and modify, for whatever purpose they may have, for free,"

"We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?"

"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."

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

"There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things."

"I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same."

"Free speech includes the right to not speak."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view."