“If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence”
Source: The Alchemist
“I know something about how the first encyclopedias were developed in the 18th century. And those encyclopedias almost completely excluded the history of women. And it’s one argument that we make all the time.”
Wholf, Tracy (May 18, 2014). "'Wikipedian' editor took on website’s gender gap" http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/wikipedian-editor-took-wikipedias-gender-gap/. PBS NewsHour (PBS). Retrieved May 19, 2014.
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“I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.”
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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)
“The result would be an Encyclopedia of Error.”
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
(1834–1902) British politician and historian
Letter to Mary Gladstone (1881)
Context: There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Error.
“Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head?”
Elizabeth Gilbert
(1969) American writer
Source: The Signature of All Things
“Modern Christianity is a encyclopedia of traditional superstition.”
Gore Vidal
(1925–2012) American writer
Source: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 5
Jimmy Wales
(1966) Wikipedia co-founder and American Internet entrepreneur
Jimmy Wales on Biographies of living persons article
Adrianne Wadewitz
(1977–2014) academic and Wikipedian
"How Adrianne Wadewitz learnt to embrace failure" http://www.smh.com.au/world/how-adrianne-wadewitz-learnt-to-embrace-failure-20140425-zqzgx.html. The Sydney Morning Herald. April 25, 2014. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
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Jack Gibson
(1929–2008) Australian rugby league player and coach
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