Wikipedia Quotes

• A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.

  Clay Shirky

  Process, Articles, Products

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.

  Clay Shirky

  Done, World, Littles

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• Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some.

  Stephen Colbert

  Want, Firsts

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• Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Victory, Substance, Process

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• Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.

  Clay Shirky

  Inspiration, People, Stones

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• Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.

  Stephen Colbert

  Morning, Confused, Blue

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• Wikipedia was offline after an overheating problem at one of its data centers. It was pretty bad. For a while there, people had nowhere to go for phony, inaccurate information.

  Jay Leno

  Data, People, Information

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• The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Powerful, Notion, Contribution

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 4, 2009.

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• If you really want the truth of anything, don't use Wikipedia.

  John Lydon

  Use, Want, Ifs

  Source: mojo20.com

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• This is a perfect example of the power and ridiculousness of a website like Wikipedia. I did give a slightly contentious graduation speech, where I decided not to be funny as my classmates had hoped, which was why I was chosen. I was not valedictorian, that's for sure. Instead, I talked about the failure to communicate between the administration and the teachers and students. That's what was contentious about it. At some point, somebody wrote about that incident on my Wikipedia page. And then somebody added the bit about me exposing my genitals to the crowd.

  Nick Kroll

  Teacher, Giving, Perfect

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• 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.

  Jimmy Wales

  Hate, Ideas, Issues

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• I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it.

  Nick Kroll

  Sacred, Internet, Source

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

  Jimmy Wales

  Believe, People, World

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• Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.

  Jimmy Wales

  Profit, Non Profit

  "The Wisdom of One". www.theage.com.au. April 25, 2007.

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• People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

  Ben Mezrich

  People, Rumor, Facts

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• I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.

  Amos Lee

  Information, Too Much, Goes On

  "Amos Lee sings of love, loss and hope". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Communication, Helping, Bigs

  "Speaker interview: Aubrey de Grey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue - a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren't libelous or otherwise illegal.

  Nicholson Baker

  Dream, Thinking, Long

  Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works: Essays”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.

  Nicholson Baker

  Facts, Incredibles, Messy

  Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

  Nicholson Baker

  Shrines, Altruism

  Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

  Johnny Vegas

  Going Away, Use, Journalist

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• Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Dangerous

  "The Speculator". Interview with Sarah T. Williams, www.startribune.com. April 28, 2008.

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• I'm actually an optimist about what lies ahead. Are wikis reliable? It depends on the specific business. Is Wikipedia reliable? You bet. Wikipedia is a researcher's dream.

  Paul Saffo

  Dream, Lying, Wikis

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.

  Jimmy Wales

  Goal, Effort, Community

  "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia". Wikipedia-l mailing list, March 08, 2005.

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• In fact, somebody keeps putting on my Wikipedia page that I'm either Don Pardo's son or grandson. I had an audition recently where the woman said, "I understand that you're Don Pardo's grandson," and I said, "No, I am not." And you should have seen the look of disappointment on her face. It may have cost me the job. It was that devastating to her that I wasn't related to Don Pardo.

  Jimmy Pardo

  Jobs, Disappointment, Son

  Source: www.avclub.com

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