He was a walking library.
When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.
Wikipedia's a collaborative experiment akin to Simon Winchester's account of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary in 'The Professor and the Madman,' which outlines James Murray's mission to produce the tome in the 19th century.
Think about it. If it's taking pictures, it's not a cellphone. If it has a McDonald's app to tell you where McDonald's is based on your GPS location, that's not a cellphone. If you can get Wikipedia or go to Google, that's not a cellphone.
I would say my weakness is the political encyclopedia, but I don't think it matters that much for what Trump needs.
Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.
It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.
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.
The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
Wikipedia represents a belief in the supremacy of reason and goodness of others.
Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.
Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information?
Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects.
There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.
The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.
Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.
[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.
Me, I'm an encyclopedia. I'm not a very smart guy, but I'm an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want. Probably I have the book; probably I have a first edition.
I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.
God is not an encyclopedia whose task is to satisfy our curiosity.
In maybe 1963, we had 'Collier's Encyclopedia,' and they sent us their yearly LP. I heard the Beatles talking on there. That was the first time I tried altering my voice, doing a Liverpudlian accent.
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?'
I don't believe Wikipedia about anything. I don't go there for anything but keywords.
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
