Quote by Jimmy Wales
What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge – the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it. – Jimmy Wales

Other quotes by Jimmy Wales

Im a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought. – Jimmy Wales

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Freedom
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I think its a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same. – Jimmy Wales

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Knowledge
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I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. Were 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. – Jimmy Wales

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positive
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There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. – Albert Einstein

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Knowledge

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. – Robert Collier

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Knowledge

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of ones being. – Orison Swett Marden

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Knowledge

I feel like 35. At 35 youre old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35! – Michael Caine

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Knowledge

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We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston. – Marvin Minsky

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I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hats off to them. – Terri Windling

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respect

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. – Sri Aurobindo

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alone

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you. – Norman Mailer

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Men