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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out your iPhone and go to Google. The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up.... You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

  Nora Ephron

  Senior, Iphone, Years

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• When I was invited to go to Wuhan, I didn't know anything about it, so I looked up the Wikipedia about Wuhan. I discovered that part of Wuhan used to be Hankou, and then I realised that my great grandmother came from Hankou. My grandmother and father were both born in Hankou. Of all the places in China, it is the most amazing place to have asked for my exhibition. I needed to go back where my family comes from!

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Father, Grandmother, Exhibitions

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• I gave the graduation speech at my high school. Not because I was valedictorian but because the grade voted for me to do it. And I gave a slightly contentious speech. I was a little critical of the administration. But for a long time it said on Wikipedia that I took my balls out and exposed myself to the crowd.

  Nick Kroll

  School, Long, Speech

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of stuff in Wikipedia is not true, and that goes for a lot of people. I sometimes think, "How can that happen?" But Wikipedia is maintained by people, and everybody can add stuff to it.

  Roland Emmerich

  Thinking, People, Add

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• Wikipedia celebrates its 12th birthday today. Of course, I have no idea if it's true. I read it on Wikipedia.

  Craig Ferguson

  Ideas, Today, Celebrate

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• There's a current notion that you should "take charge of your disease." No thanks. I'm busy. I've got cancer. I'm willing to face having cancer. I'm not willing to face having cancer with homework. I promised Dr. Pipas and Dr. Zaki that I wouldn't show up with sheaves of printouts from the Internet containing everything on Wikipedia on malignancies. They each laughed with detectable notes of relief. Although I suspect my wife has made her way into the health blog ether. Fish oil pills, raw kelp, and other untoward substances started showing up on dinner plates after I was diagnosed.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cancer, Oil, Wife

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• Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications. We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Thinking, Amazon, Entering

  "Forum: The Road Ahead". content.time.com. November 09, 2005.

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• Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong.

  Scott Adsit

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• The Internet gives you access to a lot of material, and it's fun to sit and read. I go to something like Wikipedia and look at different topics... I find the subject fascinating. I like to read about concepts and mathematicians.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Fun, Giving, Different

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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 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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• 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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• 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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