Jimmy Wales

There’s plenty of rude stuff online. People say things online that they would be ashamed to say face to face. If people could treat others as though they were speaking face to face, that would be huge.

As quoted in "The Encyclopedist’s Lair" in The New York Times (19 November 2007) , 2007

We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?

As quoted in ExpressIndia (7 September 2005) , 2005

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.

Jimmy Wales on tech's future, Orlando Sentinel (03 November 2007) , 2007

Quite frankly, several of the people who contributed to the article should be banned from coming near a keyboard until they have learned to engage in proper encyclopedia writing.

In a discussion about Wikipedia article (07 September 2006) , 2006

I regard it as a pseudonym and I don’t really have a problem with it.

On controversy regarding fraudulent claims of credentials by the Wikipedian Essjay, in an e-mail to editors of The New Yorker, as quoted in The New York Times (5 March 2007) , 2007