My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of information. (Jimmy Wales, IB World, 68, Sept. 2013, p.10. )

I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.

My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.

People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.

Wikis and social networking are just tools.