“I think that reality exists and that it's knowable”

— Jimmy Wales

Quoted in an artwork, also depicting Wales, in the 2018 exhibition 'Internet Giants : Masters of the Universe' by Langlands & Bell.

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Wikipedia co-founder and American Internet entrepreneur 1966

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