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"My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."
"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."
"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."
"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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