"Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference work in less than 10 years. Yet the cumulative time devoted to creating Wikipedia, something like 100 million hours of human thought, is expended by Americans every weekend, just watching ads."

-- Clay Shirky

#Weekend Quotes #Years Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.”
“Desire dazzles, and the sun gives life.”

Source : "Model's Web rants pined for love" by Veronika Belenkaya and Brian Harmon, www.nydailynews.com. June 29, 2008.
“Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.”
“Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.”
“But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.”
“There's no secrets or magic tricks to being successful in life. It's plain and simple. Work harder than everyone else and the only way to do that is to do it. It may sound silly but it's the truth and there aint nothing to it but to do it!”

Source : "Exclusive Ronnie Coleman Interview with SpotMeBro". spotmebro.com. March 2, 2016.
“There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain comedy for maybe a movie - hence the 'Revenge of the Nerds' franchise - but not for hopefully years on the air. It's a sight gag, not a story.”
“Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.”

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