Wikipedia Quotes · Page 2

Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

— Clay Shirky

I don't believe Wikipedia about anything. I don't go there for anything but keywords.

— Michael Pitt

I get so sick and tired of Wikipedia. People write their own crap on there.

— Larry the Cable Guy

I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.

— Amos Lee

Wikipedia works because those who know the truth are usually more numerous and committed than those who believe in a falsehood.

— Cass Sunstein

We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.

— Joichi Ito

Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster.

— Sue Gardner

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

— Nora Ephron

Wikipedia, a nonprofit, is an enormously popular website but has managed to operate without advertising. And, you know, maybe it's a little…

— Tim Wu

...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated…

— Robin Sloan

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

Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that…

— Michael Mullen

I do not need wireless access to Wikipedia. I would prefer to stir-fry my own small intestines than to have continual access…

— Tara Brabazon

If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with…

— Lance Armstrong

I'm actually an optimist about what lies ahead. Are wikis reliable? It depends on the specific business. Is Wikipedia reliable? You bet.…

— Paul Saffo

“«She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases that she didn’t understand. A…

— Bruce Sterling

My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can…

— Peter Diamandis

History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation."…

— Wolfgang Schauble

For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia's mailing lists…

— Evgeny Morozov

It would be really great if someone would invent a new Internet with the specific purpose of not making money off of…

— Todd Rundgren

I'm under stress. They killed me on wikipedia. They killed me. And I didn't stay dead long enough to sell no DVDs.…

— Sinbad

I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet.…

— Sufjan Stevens

In fact, somebody keeps putting on my Wikipedia page that I'm either Don Pardo's son or grandson. I had an audition recently…

— Jimmy Pardo

I don't appreciate it when women - or men - bandy about these stupid stereotypes about feminism that are age-old, and that…

— Kathleen Hanna

I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.

— Mitch Kapor

When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.

— Jimmy Wales

I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.

— Aaron Swartz

The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

— Jimmy Wales

I go on Wikipedia and alter pages of animals with fake facts that I've made up about those animals.

— Kurt Braunohler

Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to…

— Kumail Nanjiani

In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be…

— Tom Hulce

Most of my work is, I get an idea, and, with the help of Wikipedia, I can write. I don't have to…

— Simon Rich

Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too…

— Jimmy Wales

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

One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we…

— Scott Westerfeld

The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.

— Bo Burnham

I barely trust established sources of information. I have a hard time finding [Wikipedia], an encyclopedia that anyone can alter, to be…

— R. K. Milholland

Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia.

— James Gleick

The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start…

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and…

— P. J. O'Rourke