"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)."

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Source : "Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism" at kuro5hin.org, December 31, 2004.

Larry Sanger

#Mean Quotes #Community Quotes #Disrespect Quotes

“School boards are, for the most part ,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.”
“Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.”
“I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”

Source : Cosmopolitan, Oct. 1906
“A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.”

Source : Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.33, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“It's truly weird how everyone just thinks they can bring me Diet Coke and everything will be okay. Especially since it's pretty much true.-Lizzie Nichols”
“Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem jammed roadways to nowhere.”

Source : Carolyn Hart (2009). “Death in Lovers' Lane”, p.1, Harper Collins
“Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.”
“Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.”

Source : "Number 789: Animal House". "Questionable Content" Comic Strip, questionablecontent.net.

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