Top 100 Quotes About Wikipedia
#1. 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
#2. I kept hearing about mindfulness, which isn't a new subject. In fact it's rooted in ancient Buddhism. Wikipedia defines Mindfulness as "The intentional, accepting, non-judgmental focus of one's attention on the emotions, thoughts and sensations occurring in the present moment.
KP Croft
#3. The proselytisers for man-made global warming have long exercised a tight stranglehold over the contents of Wikipedia.
Christopher Booker
#4. Wikipedia [ ... ] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.
Clay Shirky
#5. I do not need wireless access to Wikipedia. I would prefer to stir-fry my own small intestines than to have continual access to a site where the entry for Klingon is longer than the entry for Latin.
Tara Brabazon
#6. Wikipedia says I have Antisocial Personality Disorder, which is dumb, because I'm all kids of social--I love society, society is like the ocean to my shark--and I have plenty of personality, and it's only a disorder if it messes up your life, and my life is awesome.
Harrison Geillor
#7. Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is like a house where the husband wants it warm and the wife wants it cool and they sneak back and forth adjusting the thermostat at cross purposes.
James Gleick
#8. When Wikipedia first started, the only people interacting on the Internet were hard core geeks. Now everyone is there, and they're attracted to the easy, free ways to interact.
Sue Gardner
#9. Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge ... or when I want to create some.
Stephen Colbert
#10. For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia's mailing lists will confirm that its moderators and administrators openly discuss controversial issues on a regular basis.
Evgeny Morozov
#11. Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.
James G. Stavridis
#12. It's things like Wikipedia that help us to advance as a society and help us to accelerate our evolution. If you're a researcher and you need some answer to something, and in today's world you can find it this quickly, it allows you to develop whatever you are doing much faster.
Kim Dotcom
#13. Wikipedia was the single most unreliable source of knowledge this side of The National Enquirer.
Paul Combs
#14. 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
#15. The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
Jimmy Wales
#16. It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know).
James Gleick
#17. Free services like Wikipedia I don't think benefit anyone - they don't benefit the professional because they're not paid.
Andrew Keen
#18. I can't stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.
Robin Sloan
#19. If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war.
Lance Armstrong
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Wikipedia celebrates its 12th birthday today. Of course, I have no idea if it's true. I read it on Wikipedia.
Craig Ferguson
#23. 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
#24. Wikipedia will be small, disreputable, and unimportant compared to CZ in a few more years. Uh, ;-)
Larry Sanger
#25. I don't appreciate it when women - or men - bandy about these stupid stereotypes about feminism that are age-old, and that are meant to keep people turned off from it. It's like, "All you have to do is Wikipedia feminism to know that it's not about man-hating - so shut up." That makes me annoyed.
Kathleen Hanna
#27. I go to look up the elevation of the Golden Gate bridge on Wikipedia, and an hour later I'm watching four guys in lucha libre masks fuck a dolphin.
Jon Konrath
#28. Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did. Communities can build amazing things, but you have to be part of that community and you can't abuse them. You have to be very respectful of what their needs are.
Jimmy Wales
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.
Bo Burnham
#32. But in the book," I say, "the mockingbird is supposed to be a symbol of innocence. That's why it's a sin to kill one."
"Who says it's a symbol of innocence?" asks Mort.
"Teachers," I tell him. "Book reviewers, critics --"
"Wikipedia," Elena calls from behind the window display.
Paul Acampora
#33. We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.
Joichi Ito
#34. Collective intelligence. 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
#35. People who go around advertising their birthdays are douchebags. It's a fact. You can look it up on Wikipedia.
Katja Millay
#36. Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.
Nicholson Baker
#37. To continue down the path of comprehensiveness, Wikipedia will need to sustain the astonishing mass fervor of its birth years. Will that be possible? No one knows.
James Gleick
#38. Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.
Clay Shirky
#39. I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.
Gloria Steinem
#40. On my Wikipedia page, it used to say I was born in Belfast, Ireland, then it said Belfast, Northern Ireland, and then it said Belfast, U.K. So there was a little war going on about where Belfast is located.
Adrian McKinty
#42. Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.
Jimmy Wales
#44. You're just a regular Wikipedia aren't you?
Holly Hood
#45. They lived in a Wikipedia world, where knowledge was no longer required and only the ability to access it mattered.
Bentley Little
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other informational sectors.
Ezra Klein
#50. If you look up schadenfreude on Wikipedia, you'll see a picture of me with a snide smile on my face.
Maggie Stiefvater
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. I love the Wikipedia link chain because it has led me into some strange articles. Wikipedia is one of my favorites.
Veronica Roth
#56. Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.
Aubrey De Grey
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.
Amos Lee
#66. Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
Adam D'Angelo
#67. 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
#68. I get so sick and tired of Wikipedia. People write their own crap on there.
Larry The Cable Guy
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.
Mitch Kapor
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. I made it into Wikipedia," sang Erszebet. "I'll bet none of my enemies ever made it into Wikipedia.
Neal Stephenson
#83. 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
#84. How youMore people will learn about IBM from Wikipedia in the coming years than from IBM itself.
Thomas L. Friedman
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. There are other sources, but Wikipedia is a good start.
Ru Freeman
#91. Citizendium is based on the failings and unreliability of Wikipedia.
Larry Sanger
#92. Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.
Lorde
#93. Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.
John Green
#94. I dont know how to add things to my own wikipedia page.
Craig Ferguson
#95. The number of authors in the Old Testament suggests that it is a community document, almost like a Wikipedia article.
Tripp York
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. I go on Wikipedia and alter pages of animals with fake facts that I've made up about those animals.
Kurt Braunohler
#99. He found a set of encyclopedias - like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky.
Michael Grant
#100. 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
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