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I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much. — Marcus Brigstocke

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

Wikipedia will be small, disreputable, and unimportant compared to CZ in a few more years. Uh, ;-) — Larry Sanger

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance. — Ethan Zuckerman

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

That's why Linux and Wikipedia and Firefox work. — Daniel H. Pink

How youMore people will learn about IBM from Wikipedia in the coming years than from IBM itself. — Thomas L. Friedman

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

Wikipedia's triumph seems to defy the laws of behavioral physics. — Daniel H. Pink

Citizendium is based on the failings and unreliability of Wikipedia. — Larry Sanger

Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud. — Cory Doctorow

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

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

Wikipedia represents a belief in the supremacy of reason and goodness of others. — Daniel H. Pink

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance. — Aubrey De Grey

There are other sources, but Wikipedia is a good start. — Ru Freeman

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

Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process. — Clay Shirky

When I'm really frustrated with things," she giggles " ... I like to get online and change things in Wikipedia!"
This, bitch ... is weird. — C.J. Roberts

I go to look up the elevation of the Golden Gate bridge on Wikipedia, and an hour later I'm watching four guys in lucha libre masks fuck a dolphin. — Jon Konrath

Wikipedia is so dangerous. — Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects. — Mitch Kapor

I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad. — Gloria Steinem

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

I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it. — Nick Kroll

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

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

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia. — Umberto Eco

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

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies! — Julianne Moore

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

People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia. — Peter Landesman

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

Paper cuts are like battle scars for the academic ... I, on the other hand, am best friends with Wikipedia. — Kody Keplinger

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

Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information. — Nick Kroll

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it. — John Green

Wikipedia, eh? Must be accurate then! — Terry Pratchett

I get so sick and tired of Wikipedia. People write their own crap on there. — Larry The Cable Guy

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

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

You know it's Oscar season when you see a slew of new movies based on true stories whose resolutions you can find in three seconds on Wikipedia. — Richard Corliss

Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong. — Scott Adsit

I know Wikipedia is very cool. A lot of people do not think so, but of course they are wrong. — Larry Sanger

If it were a choice between putting ads on Wikipedia or shutting down Wikipedia, we would then very reluctantly consider putting ads on Wikipedia. — Sue Gardner

I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other informational sectors. — Ezra Klein

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 is run by hippies of course - the same kind of impractical utopian losers who gave us the first affordable desktop computer and the iPod — Andre The BFG

Wikipedia was the single most unreliable source of knowledge this side of The National Enquirer. — Paul Combs

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

I dont know how to add things to my own wikipedia page. — Craig Ferguson

The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one. — Nicholas Negroponte

Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views. — Jimmy Wales

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable. — Vir Das

Free services like Wikipedia I don't think benefit anyone - they don't benefit the professional because they're not paid. — Andrew Keen

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

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

Where all strange and possibly evil things begin. Wikipedia. — Sherry D. Ficklin

I love the Wikipedia link chain because it has led me into some strange articles. Wikipedia is one of my favorites. — Veronica Roth

A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product. — Clay Shirky

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

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

Wikipedia is the best thing ever. — Michael Scott

I made it into Wikipedia," sang Erszebet. "I'll bet none of my enemies ever made it into Wikipedia. — Neal Stephenson

He found a set of encyclopedias - like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky. — Michael Grant

The number of authors in the Old Testament suggests that it is a community document, almost like a Wikipedia article. — Tripp York

If you look up schadenfreude on Wikipedia, you'll see a picture of me with a snide smile on my face. — Maggie Stiefvater

The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia. — Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism. — Nicholson Baker

Most of my work is, I get an idea, and, with the help of Wikipedia, I can write. I don't have to leave my apartment. — Simon Rich

People who go around advertising their birthdays are douchebags. It's a fact. You can look it up on Wikipedia. — Katja Millay

Times have changed in research and if you are not using Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, Google, and the like, you will be left in the dark. — Steven Magee

You're just a regular Wikipedia aren't you? — Holly Hood

They lived in a Wikipedia world, where knowledge was no longer required and only the ability to access it mattered. — Bentley Little

People of Granny's age describe Wikipedia as 'an encyclopaedia, but on the net!' Encyclopaedias are what Elsa describes as 'Wikipedia, but analogue. — Fredrik Backman

The Only Group That Can Categorize Everything Is Everybody — Clay Shirky