It is pretty weird. A few years ago, I was just some guy sitting in front of the internet. Now I send an e-mail or edit an article and it makes headlines around the world… I used to be just a guy – now I’m Jimmy Wales. (ang.)
Źródło: Identity question for world’s encyclopaedia, „The Times”
Jimmy Wales słynne cytaty
Wikipedia is like a sausage: you might like the taste of it, but you don’t necessarily want to see how it’s made.
Źródło: artykuł Who knows?, „The Guardian”, 26 października 2004
Źródło: tvn24, 30 stycznia 2009 http://www.tvn24.pl/0,10154,1584066,,,wikipedia-to-dopiero-poczatek-calej-biblioteki,raport_wiadomosc.html
„Wikipedia nie jest innowacją techniczną, lecz społeczną.”
Źródło: onet.pl http://technowinki.onet.pl/artykuly/w-sieci/wewnetrzny-tajny-swiat-wikipedii,1,3230136,artykul.html
o usunięciu kilkudziesięciu obrazów przez Jimmy’ego Walesa, które budziły jego zastrzeżenia.
Autorka: Florence Devouard, interia.pl, 10 maja 2010 http://nt.interia.pl/news/pornoafera-w-wikipedii,1476246
Źródło: polityka.pl, 28 października 2006 http://www.polityka.pl/nauka/komputeryiinternet/196133,1,wiek-wiki.read
Jimmy Wales cytaty
fragment ogłoszenia na aukcji koszuli i swetra Jimmy’ego Walesa.
Autorka: Rachel Marsden, Wiki-rozstanie (The Times) http://zdrowie.onet.pl/1473826,2040,,,,wiki_rozstanie,styl_zycia.html
Źródło: Aleksandra Pezda, Po co szkoła, skoro jest Wikipedia, wyborcza.pl, 6 grudnia 2011 http://wyborcza.pl/szkola20/1,106745,10771818,Po_co_szkola__skoro_jest_Wikipedia.html
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. (ang.)
Źródło: Robin „Roblimo” Miller, Wikimedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds http://slashdot.org/story/04/07/28/1351230/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-responds, Slashdot, 28 lipca 2004
Źródło: Aleksandra Pezda, Po co szkoła, skoro jest Wikipedia, wyborcza.pl, 6 grudnia 2011 http://wyborcza.pl/szkola20/1,106745,10771818,Po_co_szkola__skoro_jest_Wikipedia.html
Źródło: polityka.pl, 28 października 2006 http://www.polityka.pl/nauka/komputeryiinternet/196133,1,wiek-wiki.read
Jimmy Wales: Cytaty po angielsku
Announcing that the Wikimedia Foundation Board has voted to enable Wikipedia to be licensed under a Creative Commons license. "Wikipedia to be Licensed Under Creative Commons" (30 November 2007) http://blog.jamendo.com/index.php/2007/12/01/breaking-news-wikipedia-switches-to-creative-commons/
Wikimania 2008 Alexandria, press conference, 0'14 (August 2008)
Jimmy Wales on tech's future, Orlando Sentinel http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2007-11-03/business/horowitz03_1_wikipedia-jimmy-wales-copyright (03 November 2007)
Long displayed quote on his User page at Wikipedia, and many other Wikimedia projects
“EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.”
Wikipedia-l mailing list http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-October/083549.html (17 October 2007)
“IAR is policy, always has been.”
Edit comment http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules&diff=70516723, removing attempts to minimize the significance of the Wikipedia:Ignore all rules policy statement (19 August 2006)
As quoted in ExpressIndia (7 September 2005) http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=54191
“I think that reality exists and that it's knowable”
Quoted in an artwork, also depicting Wales, in the 2018 exhibition 'Internet Giants : Masters of the Universe' by Langlands & Bell.
As quoted in "Wikimedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds," by Robin "Roblimo" Miller, Slashdot (28 July 2004)
User talk statement (7 April 2005) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Ignore_all_rules/Archive_1#from_User_talk:Jimbo_Wales
Wikipedia-l mailing list (18 December 2005, 15:39 UTC)
"Identity question for world's encyclopaedia", The Times (30 December 2005) http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article782970.ece?print=yes&randnum=1188516145101
Źródło: In a discussion about Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:BonziBUDDY&diff=74314772&oldid=74246581 (07 September 2006)
“Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.”
While talking about Wikibooks project; TED - Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html, July 2005
As quoted in "Wikimedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds," http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1351230 by Robin "Roblimo" Miller, Slashdot (28 July 2004)
Interview with news24.com http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2102112,00.html (April 2007)
Źródło: Reminiscing in Jimmy Wales: “Wikipedia is from a different era” https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2021/01/jimmy-wales-wikipedia-different-era" (January 14, 2021)
Źródło: As quoted in "Who knows?", The Guardian (26 October 2004)