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"I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way."
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"We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community."
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"I can live for two months on a good compliment."
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"One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them."
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"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
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"If we do right, we shall rejoice."
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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."
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"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
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"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
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"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."
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"That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle."
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"My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world."
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"People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community."
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"Our growth rate continues to be staggering."
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"I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way."
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"The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way."
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"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."
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"I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband."
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"Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together."
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