Gore Vidal Quotes

Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong.

One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.

The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.

My sources are unreliable but their information is fascinating

As we have learned to our cost in recent years, much “secret information” is simply wrong, while information that is public … is too often discounted.

Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.

I get so sick and tired of Wikipedia. People write their own crap on there.

All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.

Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

It's important to get the facts straight, a lot of information out there isn't right.

People should fact check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

I've heard it quoted that I was dead. You can't believe anything you read. That was just an off-hand remark somebody picked up, and now it's been quoted and quoted, and therefore misquoted.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

I'm reliable sources, I'll tell ya anything you want me to know.

My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Now in Wikipedia it's really interesting. If you put something incorrect up on Wikipedia within minutes there are people crawling all over that sentence saying, "This is wrong" or "I want to change this" or "You've got to include an amplification," et cetera. So there's this massive checks and balances that actually makes that accuracy work. This is the kind of model that we - and I'm not sure why no one's discussing this - that we now have to begin to apply to fake news.

And everyone knows you can’t disprove a rumor.

Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.

Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

It is an incredible thing to see how many crazy things get thrown out that people then often write commentaries about how happy they are or how disappointed they are about something that's completely false. But, it's a lot of noise, frankly.

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

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.