40 Quotes About Wikipedia
- Author Stephen Colbert
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Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some.
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- Author David Graeber
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What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces where even when there’s nothing for them to do, they still can’t admit it openly.
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- Author Ian F. Svenonius
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He beseeches us pitiably for funds, donations, alms, and oblations so as to grow and nourish his noble monolith. Called "Wikipedia," it's a publicly built superencyclopedia. It is our obligation to bankroll it, he says: without Wikipedia we would just revert to our former status of cave-men, larvae, algae, and scum.
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- Author Bruce Sterling
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«She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases that she didn’t understand. A romance novel was just a book, while the Internet was the Internet. The Internet would crack these nuts for sure.»
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- Author Sandeep Sahajpal
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Knowledge comes at a price ... Right? If you think so, think again ... All the knowledge is available on Wikipedia, for Free
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- Author Cassandra Clare
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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.
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- Author Joseph Pham
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Writing is not only writing at all. It requires imagination and putting together pieces of notes.
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- Author Steven Magee
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Wikipedia is like a flower bed, mostly beautiful with some ugly weeds.
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- Author Christian Rudder
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I'm not going to pretend that a few minutes with Wikipedia can stand in for an understanding of a culture.
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