W Quotes
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“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.”
“Wikipedia: Tragedy of the commons
In economic science, the tragedy of the commons is a situation in which individual users, who have open access to a resource unhampered by shared social structures or formal rules that govern access and use, act independently according to their own self-interest and, contrary to the common good of all users, cause depletion of the resource through their uncoordinated action. The concept originated in an essay written in 1833 by the British economist William Forster Lloyd, who used a hypothetical example of the effects of unregulated grazing on common land (also known as a "common") in Great Britain and Ireland. The concept became widely known as the "tragedy of the commons" over a century later after an article written by Garrett Hardin in 1968.”
“Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.”
“Wikipedia was offline after an overheating problem at one of its data centers. It was pretty bad. For a while there, people had nowhere to go for phony, inaccurate information.”
“Wikipedia will be small, disreputable, and unimportant compared to CZ in a few more years. Uh, ;-)”
“Wikipedia works because those who know the truth are usually more numerous and committed than those who believe in a falsehood.”
“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, eh? Must be accurate then.”
“Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.”
“Wikis and social networking are just tools.”
“Wikistrat is my ninth start-up, so I've been through this process a few times. You have to go with what works. The power of example is compelling, so model the ideas that you want someone to understand.”
“Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.”
Source: Lexicon
“Wil je echt gelukkig zijn? Dan kun je beginnen met te waarderen wie je bent en wat je hebt. Wil je je echt ellendig voelen? Dan kun je beginnen met ontevreden zijn. Zoals Lao-tse schreef: 'Een boom zo dik dat je hem net kunt omspannen begint met een klein zaadje; een reis van duizend kilometer begint met één stap.”
Source: The Tao of Pooh
“Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.”
Source: God and Government: An Insider's View on the Boundaries between Faith and Politics
“Wilberforce did not believe in either evolution or extinction.
Owen believed in extinction but not evolution.
Lamarck believed in evolution but not extinction.
Darwin believed in evolution and extinction.
All four of them believed in God.”
“Wilbur brought the vision and Rodney executed it.”
“Wilbur burst into tears. "I dont want to die," he moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun."”
“Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.”
Source: Charlotte's Web
“Wilbur looked at the list glumly. "Are you sure you need all this stuff?"
"Yep."
"The ax?"
"The ax is critical."
"The chalk?"
"The chalk is super-critical."
"The bungee cords?"
"Bungee cords are the single most useful object in the universe, Wilbur. People may say it’s duct tape, but it’s actually bungee cords. All great heroes know this.”
Source: Ratpunzel
“Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.”
“Wilcox Fate is for losers.”
“Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors
“Wild and cruel case, youth ever thinks; but mistakenly; for Experience well knows, that action, though it seems an aggravation of woe, is really an alleviative; though permanently to alleviate pain, we must first dart some added pangs.”
Source: Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities
“Wild and disrespectful? Who the hell are you anyway, outsourced help?" -Rose Hathaway”
Source: Shadow Kiss
“Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.”
“Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world”
“Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.”
Source: The lady and her tiger
“Wild animals bite the hand that feeds them. Clever people consume the entire body.”
“Wild animals look good in the jungle, not in the Oval Office.”
“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
“Wild animals pay attention to caste and creed, humans pay attention to humanity.”
Source: See No Gender
“Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come. A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear while foresight brings it on prematurely. No one confines his unhappiness to the present.”
Source: Letters from a Stoic
“Wild animals, that is what we are, John. You believe in man and his laws, and laws would not be necessary if we were not wild animals. Look at my cat, he does not attack you, even though you have desecrated his territory. We men, we are wild. Rabid and petulant... In a rabid dog too, one can see only – a short life.”
Source: AZ
“Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.”
Source: The little house treasury
“Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.”
“Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.”
Source: Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails
“Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant taste and style of a frontiersman, you have Wild Bill, the most famous scout on the Plains.”
“Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.”
Source: The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography
“Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.”
Source: Buffalo Bill (Hon. Wm. F. Cody) and His Wild West Companions: Including Wild Bill, Texas Jack, California Joe, Capt. Jack Crawford and Other Famous Scouts of the Western Plains
“Wild boy, why do you cry when you sleep?
Wild boy, do not pull yourself away from me.
Kiss your mother goodnight.
Kiss your children one last time.
Wild boy, say your prayers before you take flight.”
Source: An Abundance of Apricots
“Wild cognition, it seems, has (literally) no time for the filing cabinet.”
“Wild creatures somehow know
where they must go, but we—
we humans wander
the paths of confusion.
Trying to be so many things
other than our true selves.”
Source: Taste the Wild Wonder: Poems
“Wild dogs? Or just Clayton? -Nick Sorrentino (Bitten)”
“Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.”
Source: Faust
“Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
“Wild fires blaze within her soul,
there's where all her passion rises from...”
“Wild fires blaze within her soul,
there's where all her passions rise from...”
“Wild flowers grow where they will.”
“wild flowers should be enjoyed unplucked where they grow.”
Source: Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails
“Wild foods, microbial cultures included, possess a great, unmediated life force, which can help us adapt to shifting conditions and lower our susceptibility to disease. These microorganisms are everywhere, and the techniques for fermenting with them are simple and flexible.”