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Quote by Jimmy Wales

“Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.”

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Jimmy Wales is an internet entrepreneur, born on August 7, 1966. He is best known for his role in the creation and leadership of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia based on collaborative and free knowledge sharing. Wales has had a profound impact on the internet industry, with his vision of creating a global platform for free access and sharing of information. more

“I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.”

Done Reading Computer Majors News Election Newspapers Google Site Edits Work Done Blocked Wikipedia

Author:Jimmy Wales

“What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.”

Discourse Lunatic Charlatans

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“The more time I spent on the site the more I came to think of Wales as some kind of Queen Ant, letting the vast colony go about its work, at the centre of a system where the knowledge of the community is infinitely larger than the sum of experience of all its individuals.”

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Author:Jimmy Wales

“When I was a freshman, I fooled around with shooting free throws this way: For some reason, I thought you had to stay within the top half of that free-throw circle, so I would step back to just inside the top of the circle, take off from behind the line and dunk. They outlawed that, but I wouldn't have done it in a game, anyway. I was a good free throw shooter in college." Actually he was a 62% free throw shooter, which is poor except in comparison to his 51% as a pro.”