“Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information”
Jimmy Wales (1966) Wikipedia co-founder and American Internet entrepreneur
Jimmy Wales. Keynote speech, Wikimania, August 2006. May 19, 2006
About falseness
“Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.”
— Man Ray
As quoted in Photographers on Photography : A Critical Anthology (1966) by Nathan Lyons, p. 80 <!-- "Man Ray Photographs 1920-1934" MAN RAY, Modern Photography, November 1957, p. 85. THE AGE OF LIGHT 1934 Preface to Man Ray Photographs 1920-1934, Paris, Hartford, James T. Soby ??? -->
Context: Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask "how", while others of a more curious nature will ask "why". Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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