Jason Scott
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Jason Scott Sadofsky (born September 13, 1970), more commonly known as Jason Scott, is an American archivist and historian of technology.
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Quotes
[edit]- [Yahoo!] found the way to destroy the most massive amount of history in the shortest amount of time with absolutely no recourse.
- So you can be a historian and also be an asshole.
- “Google is a library or archive like a supermarket is a food museum.”[1]
- Variation: Treating Google like an Archive is like treating a supermarket like a Food Museum.[2]
- "Neutral Point of View is a doctrine about how Wikipedia articles should be written. Like wikipedia itself, it is a great idea in theory. In application, of course, it turns into yet another hammer for wonks and whackjobs to beat each other and innocent bystanders."
- The Great Failure of Wikipedia (19 November 2004).
Quotes about Jason Scott
[edit]- Jason Scott is an arrogant, self-impressed idiot who thinks he's god's gift to techies because he remembers "the golden days" of BBS's.
- A 2006 comment on Slashdot by a user named Superbanana, which Jason Scott appropriated for use in the banner of his textfiles site. The original post was in Wikipedia Wars -- Late Express Ferry (28 August 2006)..
External links
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- ↑ Jason Scott: Archive Team (2012-02-24).
- ↑ Tweet by @textfiles, Jan 21, 2020, 12:35 AM: “But as I've said before: Treating Google like an Archive is like treating a supermarket like a Food Museum. It's not true, it doesn't scale, and it's ridiculously precarious.”