Wikipedia Quotes - Page 3

• If it were a choice between putting ads on Wikipedia or shutting down Wikipedia, we would then very reluctantly consider putting ads on Wikipedia.

  Sue Gardner

  Choices, Shutting Down, Ads

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• I know Wikipedia is very cool. A lot of people do not think so, but of course they are wrong.

  Larry Sanger

  Thinking, People, Very Cool

  "Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism". Personal Website, larrysanger.org. December 31, 2004.

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• Citizendium is based on the failings and unreliability of Wikipedia.

  Larry Sanger

  Unreliability, Failing

  Jewish Chronicle, October 26, 2006.

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• Wait, Wikipedia isn't working? Why hasn't someone invented a paper version of it? A set of books organized alphabetically by topic?

  Ben Shapiro

  Book, Waiting, Paper

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2012

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• When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.

  Jimmy Wales

  Three, Internet, Articles

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• Wikipedia will be small, disreputable, and unimportant compared to CZ in a few more years. Uh, ;-)

  Larry Sanger

  Years, Unimportant

  "A passel of recent mentions". Citizendium.org blog, May 01, 2008.

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• I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Beautiful, Philosophical, Reality

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview With Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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• One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Ideas, Waiting, Pages

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I racked my brain trying to remember the names of all of Nut’s five children. Bit difficult without my brother, the human Wikipedia, around to keep track of such trivia for me.

  Rick Riordan

  Brother, Children, Nuts

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

  Vir Das

  Educational, Book, Reading

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• I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?

  Alan Alda

  Atheist, Book, Simple

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• Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.

  Lorde

  Doe, Matter, Ends

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• I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Thinking, Errors, Interesting

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• Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so.

  Jimmy Wales

  Girl, People, Blunt

  "Answers.com and Wikimedia Foundation to Form New Partnership". Foundation-l mailing list, lists.wikimedia.org. October 23, 2005.

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• Our revolution is like Wikipedia, okay? Everyone is contributing content, [but] you don't know the names of the people contributing the content. This is exactly what happened. Revolution 2.0 in Egypt was exactly the same. Everyone is contributing small pieces, bits and pieces. We drew this whole picture of a revolution. And no one is the hero in that picture.

  Wael Ghonim

  Hero, Egypt, Names

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• Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.

  Steve Carell

  Writing, Office, World

  "The Office: The Negotiation". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• When I used to go on the Wikipedia page, and I haven't gone on the page in a while, there used to be some guy who was doing my page and he would say that he was my cousin and I was going to be doing projects with him. I don't know who this person is and I don't have a cousin by this name and this person keeps saying that they're doing projects with me. It's so weird.

  Demetri Martin

  Cousin, Names, Guy

  Source: www.thefutoncritic.com

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• I barely trust established sources of information. I have a hard time finding [Wikipedia], an encyclopedia that anyone can alter, to be a safe way to learn about anything except how many idiots think their opinions are a suitable substitute for facts.

  R. K. Milholland

  Hard Times, Thinking, Safe

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• The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Black And White, Definitions, White

  "'Modern Family' star Jesse Tyler Ferguson is engaged" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper and Marc Malkin, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

  Eddie Izzard

  Thinking, Discovery, Important

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• When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.

  Jimmy Wales

  Creating, People, Attention

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• Now, what does a vampire do with a computer? Keep track of investments? Send e-mail to other vampires as you all plot to take over the world?” “I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia making corrections to the entries of historical figures I’ve known.” I blinked at him. “Really?” “No, Kitty. That was a joke.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Track, Historical, Vampire

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• Aren't you failing English?" I asked. Angeline flushed. "It's not my fault." "Even I know you can't write an article on Wikipedia and then use it as a source in your own essay." Sydney had been torn between horror and hysterics when she told me. "I took 'primary source' to a whole new level!" Honestly, it was a wonder we'd gotten by for so long without Angeline. Life must have been so boring before her.

  Richelle Mead

  Writing, Long, Use

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• Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.

  Cory Doctorow

  Coffee, Black, Ottomans

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• I dont know how to add things to my own wikipedia page.

  Craig Ferguson

  Add, Pages, Know How

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson", 2005-2014.

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