Top 100 Quotes About Wikipedia
#1. Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.
Lorde
#2. Well, this was disappointing. I supposed I had jumped to a rather large conclusion, with the help of my research. It just went to show that Wikipedia was a liar and Google a whore.
Maggie Stiefvater
#3. Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.
John Green
#4. I dont know how to add things to my own wikipedia page.
Craig Ferguson
#5. The number of authors in the Old Testament suggests that it is a community document, almost like a Wikipedia article.
Tripp York
#6. 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
#7. Some people believe linking to Wikipedia is bad practice, but I disagree. I'd rather link directly to a topic that is continuously being improved than referring to part of a dead tree that is hard to obtain because it is either expensive or out of stock.
Jurgen Appelo
#8. I go on Wikipedia and alter pages of animals with fake facts that I've made up about those animals.
Kurt Braunohler
#9. There are other sources, but Wikipedia is a good start.
Ru Freeman
#10. 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
#11. Think about it. If it's taking pictures, it's not a cellphone. If it has a McDonald's app to tell you where McDonald's is based on your GPS location, that's not a cellphone. If you can get Wikipedia or go to Google, that's not a cellphone.
Newt Gingrich
#13. A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.
Clay Shirky
#14. Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.
Jimmy Wales
#16. He found a set of encyclopedias - like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky.
Michael Grant
#17. 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
#18. Times have changed in research and if you are not using Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, Google, and the like, you will be left in the dark.
Steven Magee
#19. I gave him the name Wiki, because his brain seems to contain as much knowledge as Wikipedia, whereas my revision notes disappear from my memory as fast as a Snapchat.
Zoe Sugg
#20. If I don't get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says 'openly gay,' then it's worth the risk because I've had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.
Max Von Essen
#21. If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!
Julianne Moore
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Human agency, the ability to affect the surrounding world, may be a result not so simply of conscious choice - but instead a result of training unconscious habits beforehand.
Quelle Wikipedia
#25. How youMore people will learn about IBM from Wikipedia in the coming years than from IBM itself.
Thomas L. Friedman
#26. 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
#27. I made it into Wikipedia," sang Erszebet. "I'll bet none of my enemies ever made it into Wikipedia.
Neal Stephenson
#28. 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
#29. What's to stop the populace from decrying you as a witch and rising against you?"
"I don't know. A couple hundred years of social evolution, combined with a general failure to believe in anything that doesn't have a Wikipedia entry?
Seanan McGuire
#31. I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia.
Megan Smith
#32. You are looking at the largest portal ever. The internet. You can start on the Wikipedia page for jelly donut, and four link clicks later, end up on the meaning of life.
Jake
#33. 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
#34. I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.
Mitch Kapor
#35. It's really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don't know the meaning of every single word. So I do have to do a little Wikipedia/YouTube research to figure out what I'm talking about.
Kelly McCreary
#36. Leo took out a pen and autographed the arm of one of the nymphs. Narcissus is a loser! He's so weak, he can't bench-press a Kleenex. He's so lame, when you look up lame on Wikipedia, it's got a picture of Narcissus - only the picture's so ugly, no one ever checks it out.
Rick Riordan
#37. Many American TV actors employ agents, managers, business managers, publicists and stylists, and are now adding digital media manager to the list. Their job is to reach out to the fans, managing websites, Twitter feeds, Facebook and Wikipedia.
Gina Bellman
#38. Wikipedia's triumph seems to defy the laws of behavioral physics.
Daniel H. Pink
#39. In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.
Stephen Colbert
#40. Lennon had a good point when he said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, the Beatles have a longer Wikipedia page.
Zachary Crosby
#41. 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
#42. It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift.
Jimmy Wales
#43. A lot of biopics to me feel very much like someone is standing in front of the camera and is reading a Wikipedia page to you, like someone is reciting event. Did you know this happened? Did you know that happened? But Alan Turing's life deserved a sort of passionate film, and an exciting film.
Graham Moore
#44. Hand and wrist aches are more common than ever ... Wikipedia lists ... my favorite, Raver's Thumb, which you can get from repeatedly waving a glow stick in the air (see, kids, ecstasy really is bad for you).
A. J. Jacobs
#45. Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia.
James Gleick
#46. you're deluding yourself that you have some deep spiritual connection, like you didn't just read it on Wikipedia. There's a difference between tradition and culture.
Lauren Beukes
#47. When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.
Jimmy Wales
#48. Most of my work is, I get an idea, and, with the help of Wikipedia, I can write. I don't have to leave my apartment.
Simon Rich
#49. People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia.
Peter Landesman
#50. You know it's Oscar season when you see a slew of new movies based on true stories whose resolutions you can find in three seconds on Wikipedia.
Richard Corliss
#51. I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.
Jimmy Wales
#52. Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information.
Nick Kroll
#53. Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects.
Mitch Kapor
#55. Wikipedia represents a belief in the supremacy of reason and goodness of others.
Daniel H. Pink
#56. When you look at Yahoo Answers, there can be a lot of garbage. But if you're careful about the rules and supporting good contributions, over time you can get better and better, like Wikipedia.
Adam D'Angelo
#57. Everybody's saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.
Sue Gardner
#58. Wikipedia is run by hippies of course - the same kind of impractical utopian losers who gave us the first affordable desktop computer and the iPod
Andre The BFG
#59. The Only Group That Can Categorize Everything Is Everybody
Clay Shirky
#60. I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
Aaron Swartz
#61. When I'm really frustrated with things," she giggles " ... I like to get online and change things in Wikipedia!"
This, bitch ... is weird.
C.J. Roberts
#62. This semester has born in me the flame of hope to one day become a leader in the modern feminist movement. I can and will be the force that blows new life into it, giving a face and name to associate with instead of those women now who's names I don't know because they weren't listed on Wikipedia.
Christy Leigh Stewart
#63. Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster.
Sue Gardner
#64. Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes.
Michael Mullen
#65. For all we know, this" - he scrolled up on the phone screen to find a label - "this Wikipedia information database here is compiled by complete idiots.
John Scalzi
#66. 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
#67. People of Granny's age describe Wikipedia as 'an encyclopaedia, but on the net!' Encyclopaedias are what Elsa describes as 'Wikipedia, but analogue.
Fredrik Backman
#68. The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.
Nicholas Negroponte
#69. TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
P. J. O'Rourke
#70. I know Wikipedia is very cool. A lot of people do not think so, but of course they are wrong.
Larry Sanger
#71. Paper cuts are like battle scars for the academic ... I, on the other hand, am best friends with Wikipedia.
Kody Keplinger
#72. Julian: "Wikipedia knows about everything. It might be run by warlocks."
Emma: "You think that's what they do all day in the Spiral Labyrinth? Run Wikipedia?"
Julian: "I admit it seems like a letdown.
Cassandra Clare
#73. Citizendium is based on the failings and unreliability of Wikipedia.
Larry Sanger
#74. It's fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever did.
James Gleick
#75. If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful.
Matt Mullenweg
#76. 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
#77. I get so sick and tired of Wikipedia. People write their own crap on there.
Larry The Cable Guy
#78. 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
#79. Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
Adam D'Angelo
#80. I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.
Amos Lee
#81. Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.
Kumail Nanjiani
#82. 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
#83. The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.
James Surowiecki
#84. The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
Umberto Eco
#85. 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
#86. There are loads of fan sites for the 'Edge,' including deviant art, song lyrics using 'Edge' language, multiple entries on Wikipedia, there are even some 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' games all about the 'Edge.'
Chris Riddell
#87. Anytime someone basically commissions a piece, I write a song based on something personal to them. I go online and I do research on that person - Wikipedia, YouTube interviews, anywhere I can find a piece of information that kind of tugs at your heart a little bit.
Skylar Grey
#88. 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
#89. In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true.
Tom Hulce
#90. Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.
Aubrey De Grey
#91. I love the Wikipedia link chain because it has led me into some strange articles. Wikipedia is one of my favorites.
Veronica Roth
#92. The more successful I got, the more scared I got. My name was all over Google. I had a Wikipedia page I was terrified to look at. And so I just snapped. I thought, 'If I'm going to come out with this, I'm going to do it in a big way. And not just for myself. This can't just be my story.'
Jose Antonio Vargas
#93. Technology is linking us in ways we never imagined possible: Twitter, Google, Wikipedia, and others - all blend to create a web of interconnected minds.
Dan Brown
#94. 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
#95. Online instruction isn't just conducted on the Web; it embodies an idea of knowledge that's been shaped by the Web - by Google, by Wikipedia - a confusion of information with understanding.
William Deresiewicz
#96. If you look up schadenfreude on Wikipedia, you'll see a picture of me with a snide smile on my face.
Maggie Stiefvater
#97. I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other informational sectors.
Ezra Klein
#98. The real trouble with Wikipedia lies exactly where its strength lies: its democratic impulse. In an arena where everyone's version of the facts is equally valid, and the opinions of specialists become marginalized, corporate and politicized interests are potentially empowered.
Michael Harris
#99. Any computer that developed real consciousness was immediately identified by the Genesis subroutine and destroyed. It had been that way since the WikiWars a century ago, when Wikipedia became self-aware and began vengefully reediting its contributors with remote-controlled heavy weaponry.
Michael Rubens
#100. 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
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