Jimmy Wales

"When someone just writes 'f**k, f**k, f**k', we just fix it, laugh and move on. But the difficult social issues are the borderline cases — people who do some good work, but who are also a pain in the …"

"We are going to change the Free Documentation License in such a way that Wikipedia will be able to become licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License. And so this is not, as so…"

"Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education."

"Hayek's work on price theory is central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project.  …  ne can't understand my ideas about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek."

"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 a Harvard professor; it's the work that matters."

"Should there be competing articles, so that you would have the Catholic article on abortion, the evangelical Christian version, and the Planned Parenthood version"

"I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away."

"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."