I am happy to be a contributor to the Wikipedia community. I believe that Wikipedia is a critical part of our communal understanding of the world. While news media often cannot be publicly peer-reviewed, and scientific journals are often very technical and expensive, Wikipedia offers a treasure-trove of reliable information for anyone who may be curious about it. Knowledge begs to be free, and it is a prerequisite of democratic civilization to ensure that as many people as possible have access to unbiased, peer-reviewed, factual information on as many topics as possible.
Quotes and Aphorisms
- 'Temet nosce'
- "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." — Friedrich Nietzsche
- "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." — Friedrich Nietzsche
- "The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation because she never cackles until after the egg has been laid." — Abraham Lincoln
- "The planet does not need more [financially] successful individuals. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of of all people." — The Dali Lama
- "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so." — William Shakespeare