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 d…

- Jimmy Wales

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.

- Jimmy Wales

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.

- Jimmy Wales

Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.

- Jimmy Wales

To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or…

- Jimmy Wales

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

- Jimmy Wales

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

- Jimmy Wales

Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.

- Jimmy Wales

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

- Jimmy Wales