Ian Gillan Quotes

Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.

If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful.

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

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.

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

To continue down the path of comprehensiveness, Wikipedia will need to sustain the astonishing mass fervor of its birth years. Will that be possible? No one knows.

People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

Wikipedia's funny. Some of the stuff on there - I go there occasionally - it's unbelievable the amount of stuff that people will write on there.

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

I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.

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

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

Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia.

We're living in an age where we should be collaborating. Because it's the Internet now. It's hard to say who owns what.

Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.

Wikipedia, a nonprofit, is an enormously popular website but has managed to operate without advertising. And, you know, maybe it's a little simpler than Google and YouTube, but it does show there's another way.

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

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

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

We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.

Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.

When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.

Open-source is a means of production.

Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.