prophecies of Wikipedia, the arrival was foretold Options

[Doc glasgow]

Was Orwell thinking of Wikipedia's attitude to BLPs?

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever

or perhaps Shakespeare?:

"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence" (Act 1, Scene iii, 123-126).

[tarantino]

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
Edward Abbey

[A Horse With No Name]

"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." - Harlan Ellison

I think Wikipedia could use a little more hydrogen.

[GlassBeadGame]

or perhaps Shakespeare?:

"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence" (Act 1, Scene iii, 123-126).

You're such a Scot, Doc. You do know he wrote more than one play, right?

[Doc glasgow]

or perhaps Shakespeare?:

"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence" (Act 1, Scene iii, 123-126).

You're such a Scot, Doc. You do know he wrote more than one play, right?

The Scottish Play is (naturally) the only one that matters.

[GlassBeadGame]

or perhaps Shakespeare?:

"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence" (Act 1, Scene iii, 123-126).

You're such a Scot, Doc. You do know he wrote more than one play, right?

The Scottish Play is (naturally) the only one that matters.

I keep Macbeth, The Complete Work of William Shakespeare on by desk next to my Basque World Atlas.

[Doc glasgow]

I keep Macbeth, The Complete Work of William Shakespeare on by desk next to my Basque World Atlas.

My desktop naturally has Wikipedia, The Sum of all Human Knowledge next to it.




At least that line got us back on topic.

[Casliber]

I wouldn't want to be a member of any club that'd have me as a member - Groucho Marx

[HRIP7]

On Wikipedia (and Wikipedia criticism)

• One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
  
  
• Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
  
  
• Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
  
  
• The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
  
  
• If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
  
  
• Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?
  
  
• The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
  
  
• The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
  
  
• Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
  
  
• What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
  
  
• There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
  
  
• The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
  
  
• It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
  
  
• Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

[CharlotteWebb]

The Scottish Play is (naturally) the only one that matters.

I'm waiting for a film adaptation of Timon of Athens, then I'll get back to you on that.