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There’s plenty of rude stuff online. People say things online that they would be ashamed to say face to face. If people could treat others as though they were speaking face to face, that would be huge.

— Jimmy Wales

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My birthday wish for Wikipedia is: Let's go forward and see what we can do next.

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.

Hayek's work on price theory is central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project. … [O]ne can't understand my ideas about Wikipedia without understanding Hayek.

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What if we could get everyone in the world together to record what they know in one place?

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