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
growing-up war moon
When I was growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, this is where the space and rocket center was. This is where all of the German rocket scientists came after war and started designing rockets for NASA, for the moon landing and all that.
comedian needs stills
Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
people mind making-money
A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.
goal effort community
Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.
reading kind approach
I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.
use internet stills
We are still in the very beggining of the Internet. Let's use it wisely.
thinking years two
I think MySpace is doomed, I give them about two more years.... I think Facebook is the next Microsoft in both the bad and the good senses. That's an amazing company that is going to do a lot of good and bad things.
real struggle party
The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.
winning thinking impact
I'm a very friendly person, and I think that's had a big impact on my work because I tend to be pretty good with not trying to always win every argument and things like that. I just sort of try to bring a lot of people together to talk.
freedom expression speech
I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
business internet-access 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.
audio cds german learning
I'm learning German, ... You couldn't learn German just from a textbook...So I'm learning from audio CDs and games.
support request
EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.