Quotes About Encyclopedia

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.

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.

Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects.

I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags, and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

There are bars of Pear's soap and a thick book called Pear's Encyclopedia, which keeps me up day and night because it tells you everything about everything and that's all I want to know.

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

Intelligent people are always the best encyclopaedia.

Googlepedia, The Global Encyclopedia can surpass and prevail all other encyclopedias to write vulnerably free, neutral, honest, and fair content written by scholarly contributors, which no one will be able to delete.

What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.

The Encyclopedia of Systemic NLP (2000) and NLP II: The Next Generation (2010).

Can life be defined? Well, how would you go about it? Well, of course, you'd go to Encyclopedia Britannica and open at L. No, of course you don't do that; you put it somewhere in Google. And then you might get something.

I went right to the 'Guide to the Marvel Universe,' which has every Marvel character from A-Z, and fortunately, I had every issue. I found 'Deathlok,' read about him there.

In eighteenth century France the end was at hand when men bought the Encyclopedia and found Diderot there.

In 1893, Ranhofer published The Epicurean, his twelve-hundred-page, four-thousand recipe "Franco-American Culinary Encyclopedia," which, though it made its way into few household kitchens, became a bible for American restaurants and hotels. Though

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.

the "compendium of learning" set in motion by the Ming Emperor Yongle (1360–1424), which drew on the talents of more than two thousand scholars and filled more than eleven thousand volumes—and remained the largest encyclopedia in the world until Wikipedia surpassed it in 2007.

I have been collecting recipes and information for over 20 years, but three years ago, my editor said to me, 'You're a walking encyclopedia of food, so why don't you do an encyclopedia?'

There was an omnivorous intellect that won him the family sobriquet of Walking Encyclopedia.

My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II and donated to our family after seeing how interested we were in it. Each volume had special chapters called 'Things Boys can Do.' My brothers and I would pick out interesting projects.

I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.

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.

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

I mean, did you ever hear of Wikipedia? It's free, douchebag.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.