User:Ningauble

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought.
Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883), "Character"

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

— George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Vol. 5 (1906), Ch. 8

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

— Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature (1791–1824), "Quotation"

If it ain't cited, it ain't a quote.

— Ningauble (You can quote me on that.)

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

— Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), Ch. 3: "Reading"

Literature is news that stays news.

— Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (1934), Ch. 8

This user is an administrator on the English Wikiquote. (verify)

This user has a page on Wikipedia.

This user donated to the Wikimedia Foundation that operates Wikiquote.

This user has been on Wikiquote for
16 years, 4 months, and 5 days.

50,000+

This user has made over 50,000 contributions to Wikiquote.

This user stamps out footnotes with interlinear citations.

This user thinks that registration should be required to edit articles.

en	This user is a native English speaker.

Useful stuff

VFD tips – for repeat nominations, bulk nominations, etc.
Primary, secondary, and tertiary sources – essay.
...other useful stuff TBA.

Interesting stuff

Wikiquote in the news – not updated regularly
Most viewed Wikiquote pages – not updated regularly (Don't be fooled if the title on this external tool still says Wikipedia)
"He that tooteth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooted for him."
— Something my grandmother used to say, origin unknown

Useless stuff

Q: How many Wikimedians does it take to change a light bulb?

A:

All of them – everything is done by consensus.
Q: No, really, how many Wikimedians does it take to change a light bulb?

A:

No need to ask – just be bold and do it yourself!
Q: Isn't that contradictory?

A:
Yes.

Q: How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

A:
It can't be done – it's a hardware problem.

Contributions

These are some articles where I made substantial contributions (un-stubbed, expanded, found citations, rescued from deletion, &tc.). Articles I created are in boldface. If they are still stubs, please improve them!

People
• Shirley Abbott • Chinua Achebe • Saul Alinsky • Poul Anderson • Theda Bara • Joel Barlow • Greg Bear • Edward Bernays • Charles Bernstein • Yogi Berra • Jorge Luis Borges • Ray Bradbury • Richard Brautigan • Jacob Bronowski • Fred Brooks • John Brunner • Fritjof Capra • Anne Carson • Ted Chiang • Art Clokey • E. F. Codd • Fernando J. Corbató • John Crowley • J. V. Cunningham • Stephen Decatur • Lee De Forest • Democritus • Edsger W. Dijkstra • Robert Floyd • Carlos Fuentes • Martin Gardner • Kurt Hahn • Richard Hamming • John Heywood • Sam Hinton • C. A. R. Hoare • Kenneth E. Iverson • Josephine Jacobsen • Donald Knuth • Ronald David Laing • Ursula K. Le Guin • Stanisław Lem • Benoît Mandelbrot • John McCarthy • Ian McDonald • Josephine Miles • Marvin Minsky • Edna St. Vincent Millay • Dwight Morrow • Samuel F. B. Morse • Bill Moyers • Allen Newell • Donald Norman • William of Occam • Charles Olson • George Oppen • Alan Perlis • Mary Pickford • Frederik Pohl • George Pólya • William Poundstone • Dennis Ritchie • Kim Stanley Robinson • Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Edward Taylor • Henry Timrod • Frederick Goddard Tuckerman • Mark Twain • Jeff VanderMeer • Jules Verne • H. G. Wells • Phillis Wheatley • Maurice Wilkes • James H. Wilkinson • Eugene S. Wilson • Terry Winograd • Gene Wolfe • John Yau •

Themes
• Ability • Absence • Action • Admiration • Advertising • Ambition • Americas • Animal rights • Autobiography • Beauty • Books • Bureaucracy • Candles • Clay • Common sense • Community • Dance • Déjà vu • Exponential growth • Fame • Fiction • Fireflies • Future • Go • Grass • Haste • Hope • Knowledge • Labor • Laughter • Mathematics • Means and ends • Nasreddin • Panic • Paradox • Procrastination • Programming languages • Quotations • Randomness • Reputation • Rules • Sauce • Science fiction • Sharing • Shoes • Silence • Statistics • Stone • Strangers • Television • Vanity • Wikipedia • Worth •

Works
• The Book of the New Sun • Childhood's End • The Dispossessed • How to Lie with Statistics ‎ • Timequake •