Karabatic Wikipedia Quotes

#1. Wikipedia says I have Antisocial Personality Disorder, which is dumb, because I'm all kids of social--I love society, society is like the ocean to my shark--and I have plenty of personality, and it's only a disorder if it messes up your life, and my life is awesome. #Quote by Harrison Geillor

#2. Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal. #Quote by Jimmy Wales

#3. Wikipedia is so dangerous. #Quote by Lois McMaster Bujold

#4. Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast. #Quote by Nicholson Baker

#5. The beauty in the genome is of course that it's so small. The human genome is only on the order of a gigabyte of data ... which is a tiny little database. If you take the entire living biosphere, that's the assemblage of 20 million species or so that constitute all the living creatures on the planet, and you have a genome for every species the total is still about one petabyte, that's a million gigabytes - that's still very small compared with Google or the Wikipedia and it's a database that you can easily put in a small room, easily transmit from one place to another. And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data. #Quote by Freeman Dyson

#6. A lot of biopics to me feel very much like someone is standing in front of the camera and is reading a Wikipedia page to you, like someone is reciting event. Did you know this happened? Did you know that happened? But Alan Turing's life deserved a sort of passionate film, and an exciting film. #Quote by Graham Moore

#7. Don't believe Wikipedia, not everything written there is true. The Soviet Artists Union was not a communist party organization. It was a professional union, which did not protect you from the government if the government decided you were the enemy, but it did give you the possibility to work in your profession and survive. #Quote by Ilya Kabakov

#8. I don't appreciate it when women - or men - bandy about these stupid stereotypes about feminism that are age-old, and that are meant to keep people turned off from it. It's like, "All you have to do is Wikipedia feminism to know that it's not about man-hating - so shut up." That makes me annoyed. #Quote by Kathleen Hanna

#9. 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. #Quote by David Graeber

#10. It would be really great if someone would invent a new Internet with the specific purpose of not making money off of it, but making it what it originally was, a free marketplace of ideas, and there are still aspects of the Internet that are that. Wikipedia, essentially, is still the bastion of the original ideals of the Internet. #Quote by Todd Rundgren

#11. The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever. #Quote by Bo Burnham

#12. We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love. #Quote by Clay Shirky

#13. Our pals over at Wikipedia make hair sounds like the sun of fresh water, saying in their snooty tone that head hair has "gained an important significance in nearly all present societies as well as any given historical period throughout the world". But then again, those lovable eggheads can make anything sound pretty serious. #Quote by Neil Pasricha

#14. I'm like Mary Annette, but I'm not a marionette. Who's Mary Annette? The first woman of color to be elected to Phi Beta Kappa. What color was she? Wikipedia didn't have a picture, so probably either blue or green - let's just call it turquoise. #Quote by Jarod Kintz

#15. This semester has born in me the flame of hope to one day become a leader in the modern feminist movement. I can and will be the force that blows new life into it, giving a face and name to associate with instead of those women now who's names I don't know because they weren't listed on Wikipedia. #Quote by Christy Leigh Stewart

#16. you're deluding yourself that you have some deep spiritual connection, like you didn't just read it on Wikipedia. There's a difference between tradition and culture. #Quote by Lauren Beukes

#17. Following the emergence of leaked information regarding Alice Calloway, Etgar Allison has suffered considerable loss motivation, energy and interest in his usual pursuits (Wikipedia, YouTube, Kurt Vonnegut). He has been seen to spend long periods of time staring at inanimate objects and will occasionally stop whatever he is doing to lie face down on the floor and sing "One Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton (a song he has described as "all that's left"). In an official statement given earlier today, he described bed as "better that sex" and Alice Calloway as "the horriblest bitch I know". #Quote by Ben Brooks

#18. It's things like Wikipedia that help us to advance as a society and help us to accelerate our evolution. If you're a researcher and you need some answer to something, and in today's world you can find it this quickly, it allows you to develop whatever you are doing much faster. #Quote by Kim Dotcom

#19. Wikipedia celebrates its 12th birthday today. Of course, I have no idea if it's true. I read it on Wikipedia. #Quote by Craig Ferguson

#20. Wikipedia lacks the habit or tradition of respect for expertise. As a community, far from being elitist (which would, in this context, mean excluding the unwashed masses), it is anti-elitist (which, in this context, means that expertise is not accorded any special respect, and snubs and disrespect of expertise is tolerated). #Quote by Larry Sanger

#21. It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift. #Quote by Jimmy Wales

#22. The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up. #Quote by Jimmy Wales

#23. Online instruction isn't just conducted on the Web; it embodies an idea of knowledge that's been shaped by the Web - by Google, by Wikipedia - a confusion of information with understanding. #Quote by William Deresiewicz

#24. Lennon had a good point when he said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, the Beatles have a longer Wikipedia page. #Quote by Zachary Crosby

#25. There are loads of fan sites for the 'Edge,' including deviant art, song lyrics using 'Edge' language, multiple entries on Wikipedia, there are even some 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' games all about the 'Edge.' #Quote by Chris Riddell

#26. When you look at Yahoo Answers, there can be a lot of garbage. But if you're careful about the rules and supporting good contributions, over time you can get better and better, like Wikipedia. #Quote by Adam D'Angelo

#27. Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything. #Quote by Adam D'Angelo

#28. The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential. #Quote by James Surowiecki

#29. When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia. #Quote by Jimmy Wales

#30. Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry. #Quote by Lorde

#31. Wikipedia…" Jamison began, his voice dripping with disgust, "is not a resource for researching one's moral quandaries. It is pornography for pseudo-intellectuals." ~Gauze #Quote by Tiffany Reisz

#32. The proselytisers for man-made global warming have long exercised a tight stranglehold over the contents of Wikipedia. #Quote by Christopher Booker

#33. Anytime someone basically commissions a piece, I write a song based on something personal to them. I go online and I do research on that person - Wikipedia, YouTube interviews, anywhere I can find a piece of information that kind of tugs at your heart a little bit. #Quote by Skylar Grey

#34. Peter tells Langdon that the Masons believe that the Bible is an esoteric allegory written by humanity, and that, like most religious texts around the globe, it contains veiled instructions for harnessing humanity's natural God-like qualities and is not meant to be interpreted as the commands of an all-powerful deity. This interpretation has been lost amid centuries of scientific skepticism and fundamentalist zealotry. The Masons have (metaphorically) buried it, believing that, when the time is right, its rediscovery will usher in a new era of human enlightenment. #Quote by The Lost Symbol Wikipedia

#35. The Internet gives you access to a lot of material, and it's fun to sit and read. I go to something like Wikipedia and look at different topics ... I find the subject fascinating. I like to read about concepts and mathematicians. #Quote by Viswanathan Anand