Zitat des Tages von Jimmy Wales:
I can't do anything quietly anymore.
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.
A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.
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.
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.
If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.
Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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.
I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet.
If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.
A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.
Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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 no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.
Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.
I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.
I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
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.
We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.
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 original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.
I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.
People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.
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.
We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.
I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
