Jimmy Wales

And, you know, it's very, the Catholic Church position is this, and the Pope has said that, and critics have responded thus, and it starts to sound like a Wikipedia entry.

But that's really, when we're at our best, that's how we're doing it.

You know, I always say it has two purposes.

One is the epistemological or knowledge purpose, i.e.,

When I go to an encyclopedia, I don't want to hear just one side of the story.

I want to understand all the sides and what's the debate about.

But also from a social perspective, it makes it possible for people who strongly disagree to work together.

Like you can go, OK, right.

I understand it's not going to take my view, but we can work together in a fair way.

And when we forget that or when we don't live up to that, everything gets a lot harder.

I mean, maybe.

I've never really thought of it in those terms.

I mean, it's not like I'm a programmer who accidentally started running a thing.

I'm actually a camp programmer.

I'm not very good.

I'm an entrepreneur more than anything else.

So I was always thinking of it from that organizational, how do we get people involved?

How do we lead people?

How do we excite, motivate people?

All of that.