Encyclopedia Quote by Vannevar Bush

“The openness of such networked devices reflects our growing desire to construct writing in a way that breaks down the traditional distinctions between the…

— Jay David Bolter

Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly, I’ve always said and I stand by it,…

— Anonymous

An encyclopedia is a system for collecting dust in alphabetical order.

— Mike Barfield

It wasn't that long ago that I was coming up, but it feels almost ancient that you had to go to the library and…

— Rick Famuyiwa

My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.

— Jimmy Wales

“There is a topic being left unaddressed, and Belwether is starting to feel his way around its edges, like a man sizing up a…

— Mick Herron

The web has changed the way we organise information in a very clear way: from the boundaried, solid format of books and newspapers to…

— Katharine Viner

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

— James Gleick

Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some.

— Stephen Colbert

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

— Jimmy Wales

I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe - and I am…

— Linus Pauling