I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do.
From Jimmy Wales
What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
I am really accessible.
It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.
Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.
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.
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.
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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