“If the project was lucky enough to have a writer or two well-informed about some specialized subject, and if their work was not degraded in quality by the majority of people, whose knowledge of the subject is based on paragraphs in books and mere mentions in college classes, then there might be a good, credible article on that specialized subject. Otherwise, there will be no article at all, a very amateurish-sounding article, or an article that looks like it might once have been pretty good, but which has been hacked to bits by hoi polloi.”

Source: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (2008), p. 139-140

Source: Classification and indexing in science (1958), Chapter 1: The need for classification, p. 11.

Source: Constitutional Code; For the Use All Nations and All Governments Professing Liberal Opinions Volume 1

About the U.S. Constitution, which only has seven articles and 27 amendments; as recounted by Mark Sanford, quoted in "Trump Manages To Give Some House GOPers More Heartburn In Hill Meeting" http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/trump-changes-few-minds-with-meeting-on-the-hill (2016), Talking Points Memo (July 7, 2016).
2010s, 2016, July

Source: How I Grew (1987), Ch. 7

Heaven and Earth (2009)

Homecoming saga

Sketches and Travels in London; Mr. Brown's Letters to his Nephew: "On Tailoring — And Toilettes in General" (1856).
Source: Sketches and Travels, Etc.

Source: Reminiscing in Jimmy Wales: “Wikipedia is from a different era” https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2021/01/jimmy-wales-wikipedia-different-era" (January 14, 2021)