Jimmy Wales

Before: DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, HAWKINS, and KIM McLANE WARDLAW, Circuit Judges. Donald M. Falk, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, Palo Alto, CA, for the appellants. Paul J. Andre, Perkins Coie...

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.

We don't need secrecy.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do.

I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three...

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.

I still believe there is a need to open up search and it will come eventually. It is very important to challenge the current models.