Wiki Quotes

#1. Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.

Ward Cunningham

#2. Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.
[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]

John Green

#3. I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.

Diplo

#4. I try to answer all my fan mail. Sometimes I get questions from people who obviously only read the Wiki but haven't read the books. I'm like, 'But you have to read the book or you're not going to get it.'

Cassandra Clare

#5. When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That's how wiki came about.

Ward Cunningham

#6. I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it; and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other meaning to you. Otherwise, you just put a Wiki page on camera. You can learn something, but it won't mean anything to you later on.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#7. A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.

Garrett Camp

#8. The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'

Gabe Newell

#9. Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages?

Ward Cunningham

#10. A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know.

Ward Cunningham

#11. The absolute deterioration of the wiki concept is just a matter of time. Once spam mechanisms are developed to eat into these systems, the caretakers will be too busy to stop the public-driven deterioration.

John C. Dvorak

#12. I'm constantly claimed by atheists. I find this intriguing. In fact, on my Wiki page - I didn't create the Wiki page, others did, and I'm flattered that people cared enough about my life to assemble it - and it said, 'Neil deGrasse is an atheist.'

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#13. Language is not a protocol legislated by an authority but rather a wiki that pools the contributions of millions of writers and speakers, who ceaselessly bend the language to their needs and who inexorably age, die, and get replaced by their children, who adapt the language in their turn.

Steven Pinker

#14. I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.

Jimmy Wales

#15. 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

#16. Our children must follow in our footsteps; after all, we are older and know about the world.

Paulo Coelho

#17. Off...pfff... it just fucking happen... it happen for god sake... it just happen...

Deyth Banger

#18. Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.

John Wayne

#19. Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them.

Sean O'Casey

#20. Assembly, while extremely powerful, is simply too difficult to program large applications and hard to read or interpret in a logical way. C is a compiled language, which creates fast and efficient executable files. It is also a small "what you see is all you get" language:

Wiki Books

#21. Youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.

Willa Cather

#22. The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

Laura Anne Gilman