Encyclopedia Quote by Jimmy Wales

I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

— Alberto Manguel

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We…

— Vivek Wadhwa

Yeah, but look, who really provided the world's information to everybody on Earth? That was Wikipedia, right? And if you're asking what could we…

— Paul Romer

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

— Gary Wolf

Make information free for all.

— Carla Hayden

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about…

— Thomas Friedman

Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on…

— Jimmy Wales

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…

— Jimmy Wales

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It…

— Steve Jobs

When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want, you…

— Mark Zuckerberg

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

— Jimmy Wales