“When someone just writes 'fk, fk, f**k', we just fix it, laugh and move on. But the difficult social issues are the borderline cases — people who do some good work, but who are also a pain in the neck.”

— Jimmy Wales

Source: As quoted in "Who knows?", The Guardian (26 October 2004)

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