Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Donal Wales was born Aug 1966, in Huntsville, Madison County, [[Alabama]], the son of Jimmy Don Wales, a sometimes grocery-store manager and his wife Doris Ann Dudley, a schoolteacher. Jimmy (Jr) married on 24 Mar 1997 in Monroe County, [[Florida]] to Christine Anne Rohan.  They have a daughter Kira.

Jimmy Donal Wales was born Aug 1966, in Huntsville, Madison County, [[Alabama]], the son of Jimmy Don Wales, a sometimes grocery-store manager and his wife Doris Ann Dudley, a schoolteacher. Jimmy (Jr) married on 24 Mar 1997 in Monroe County, [[Florida]] to Christine Anne Rohan.  They have a daughter Kira.

:'''Wales''': Yes. So Ayn Rand is the — she wrote ''Atlas Shrugged'' and ''The Fountainhead'', as is viewed by many as, you know, something of the founder of the libertarian strain of thought in the U.S. She would have rejected quite rightly, I think, the libertarian label. But I think for me one of the core things that is very applicable to my life today is the virtue of independence — is the vision, you know, if you know the idea of Howard Roark who is the architect in ''The Fountainhead'' who has a vision for what he wants to accomplish and, you know, there's some time in the book when he is frustrated in his career because people don't want to build the type of buildings he wants to build. And he's given a choice, a difficult choice, to compromise his integrity or to essentially go out of business. And he has to go and take a job working in a quarry. And for me that model has a lot of — a lot of resonance for me. You know when I think about what I'm doing — what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work.

:'''Wales''': Yes. So Ayn Rand is the — she wrote ''Atlas Shrugged'' and ''The Fountainhead'', as is viewed by many as, you know, something of the founder of the libertarian strain of thought in the U.S. She would have rejected quite rightly, I think, the libertarian label. But I think for me one of the core things that is very applicable to my life today is the virtue of independence — is the vision, you know, if you know the idea of Howard Roark who is the architect in ''The Fountainhead'' who has a vision for what he wants to accomplish and, you know, there's some time in the book when he is frustrated in his career because people don't want to build the type of buildings he wants to build. And he's given a choice, a difficult choice, to compromise his integrity or to essentially go out of business. And he has to go and take a job working in a quarry. And for me that model has a lot of — a lot of resonance for me. You know when I think about what I'm doing — what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work.