Encyclopedia Quotes

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.

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.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.

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

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 goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the 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.

My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.

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.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.