Jimmy Wales

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1. 1966 age 0

   Born

2. 2010 age 44

   CreditTruth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia

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• What if we could get everyone in the world together to record what they know in one place?

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• Dude, you rock.

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• 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.

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• I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.

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• I have no plans at all to be running an asylum. This is a serious encyclopedia project. We *do* have to make our changes conservatively and slowly, so as to make sure that we preserve our open spirit to the maximal degree possible. But some people are just not suitable for editing here, and that's just a simple brute fact.

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• [Wikipedia is] like a sausage: you might like the taste of it, but you don't necessarily want to see how it's made.

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