#kip

I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#always #big #bigger #course #creating

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. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#encyclopedia #free #general #hard #hate

The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#core #people #really #screw #something

I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day. ↗

— Kate Walsh

#breakfast #burn #calories #day #eating

You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life. ↗

— Burt Ward

#answer #balance #call #could #did

I don't enjoy being in Europe for weeks on end, so I just skip it. ↗

— Lindsay Davenport

#end #enjoy #europe #i #just

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#fiction #i #learned #me #parts

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#because #brain #enough #evaluate #formed

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#flowering #garden #heart #i #pass

I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out. ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

#different #does #feeling #felt #first