Larry Sanger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Thinking #People #Wikipedia
Citizendium is based on the failings and unreliability of Wikipedia.
-- Larry Sanger

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

#Years #Wikipedia #Unimportant
We should be worried about online silos. They make us stupid and hostile toward each other.
-- Larry Sanger

#Stupid #Worried #Online
We need to get rid of all remnants of bureaucracy and bureaucratic thinking, and start thinking like entrepreneurs again.
-- Larry Sanger

#Thinking #Entrepreneur #Needs
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).
-- Larry Sanger

#Mean #Community #Disrespect
Quality is determined by accuracy and completeness.
-- Larry Sanger

#Quality #Determined #Accuracy

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.
Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.
What defines Web 2.0 is the fact that the material on it is generated by the users (consumers) rather than the producers of the system. Thus, those who operate on Web 2.0 can be called prosumers because they simultaneously produce what they consume such as the interaction on Facebook and the entries on Wikipedia.
I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.
It turns out a lot of people don't get it. Wikipedia is like rock'n'roll; it's a cultural shift.

Larry Sanger famous quotes

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