Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Walesis an American Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and the for-profit Wikia web hosting company...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth7 August 1966
CountryUnited States of America
growth rate staggering
Our growth rate continues to be staggering.
fun creating world
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
schedules get-up i-can
I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.
google ifs
If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.
wikipedia three internet
When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.
reality thinking
I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.
worry world censorship
I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
guy enlightenment kind
I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.
wikipedia profit non-profit
Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.
fighting people politics
Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
queens thinking community
The more time I spent on the site the more I came to think of Wales as some kind of Queen Ant, letting the vast colony go about its work, at the centre of a system where the knowledge of the community is infinitely larger than the sum of experience of all its individuals.
discourse charlatans lunatic
What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.
next textbooks bigs
Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.
hate numbers love-hate
We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.