Sue Gardner famous quotes

Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster.
-- Sue Gardner

#Practice #Wikipedia #Disaster

Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don’t benefit from their crumb.
-- Sue Gardner

#Tables #Information #Benefits

If it were a choice between putting ads on Wikipedia or shutting down Wikipedia, we would then very reluctantly consider putting ads on Wikipedia.
-- Sue Gardner

#Choices #Shutting Down #Wikipedia

Everybodys saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.
-- Sue Gardner

#Media #Wikipedia #Should

According to Krishnamacharya , practice and knowledge must always go together. He used to say, practice without right knowledge of theory is blind. This is also because without right knowledge, one can mindfully do a wrong practice.

Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.

In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is no longer like than now; it is (because) for the ancients, moral was a principle of inner life, whereas in our days, most of the time one is content to adhere to an official moral, that we recognize in theory, but that one does not care to put into practice.

I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.

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.

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

A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.

The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier.

My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.