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♦ “THE ROMANS BURNT THE BOOKS OF THE JEWS”: Isaac Disraeli, Curiosities of Literature (London: Routledge & Sons, 1893), 17.
♦ “ALL THE LOST PLAYS OF THE ATHENIANS!”: Tom Stoppard, Arcadia (London: Samuel French, 1993), 38.
♦ “IF YOU WANT TO WRITE ABOUT FOLKLORE”: “Wikipedia: Requested Articles,” http://web.archive.org/web/20010406104800/www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Requested_articles (accessed 4 April 2001).
♦ “AGING IS WHAT YOU GET”: Quoted by Nicholson Baker in “The Charms of Wikipedia,” New York Review of Books 55, no. 4 (20 March 2008). The same anonymous user later struck again, vandalizing the entries on angioplasty and Sigmund Freud.
♦ “IT HAS NEVER BEEN SPREAD OUT, YET”: Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (London: Macmillan, 1893), 169.
♦ “THIS IS AN OBJECT IN SPACE, AND I’VE SEEN IT”: Interview, Jimmy Wales, 24 July 2008.
♦ “DIE SCHRAUBE AN DER HINTEREN LINKEN BREMSBACKE”: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Die_Schraube_an_der_hinteren_linken_Bremsbacke_am_Fahrrad_von_Ulrich_Fuchs (accessed 25 July 2008).
♦ “A PLAN ENTIRELY NEW”: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 3rd edition, title page; cf. Richard Yeo, Encyclopædic Visions: Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 181.
♦ “MANY TOPICS ARE BASED ON THE RELATIONSHIP”: “Wikipedia: What Wikipedia Is Not,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not (accessed 3 August 2008).
♦ “HE READ FOR METAPHYSICS”: Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, chapter 51.
♦ “I BEGAN STANDING WITH MY COMPUTER OPEN”: Nicholson Baker, “The Charms of Wikipedia.”
♦ “A HAMADRYAD IS A WOOD-NYMPH”: John Banville, The Infinities (London: Picador, 2009), 178.
♦ “MADE UP OF SYLLABLES THAT APPEAR”: Deming Seymour, “A New Yorker at Large,” Sarasota Herald, 25 August 1929.
♦ BY 1934 THE BUREAU WAS MANAGING A LIST: “Regbureau,” The New Yorker (26 May 1934), 16.
♦ AS THE HISTORIAN BRIAN OGILVIE HAS SHOWN: Brian W. Ogilvie, The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006).
♦ SCANDIX, PECTEN VENERIS, HERBA SCANARIA: Ibid., 173.
♦ CATALOGUE OF 6,000 PLANTS: Caspar Bauhin; Ibid., 208.
♦ “THE NAME OF A MAN IS LIKE HIS SHADOW”: Ernst Pulgram, Theory of Names (Berkeley, Calif.: American Name Society, 1954), 3.
♦ “A SCIENTIST’S IDEA OF A SHORT WAY”: Michael Amrine, “ ‘Megabucks’ for What’s ‘Hot,’ ” The New York Times Magazine, 22 April 1951.
♦ “IT’S AS IF YOU KNEEL TO PLANT THE SEED”: Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget (New York: Knopf, 2010), 8.
♦ SERVER FARMS PROLIFERATE: Cf. Tom Vanderbilt, “Data Center Overload,” The New York Times Magazine, 14 June 2009.
♦ LLOYD CALCULATES: Seth Lloyd, “Computational Capacity of the Universe,” Physical Review Letters 88, no. 23 (2002).
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♦ “SORRY FOR ALL THE UPS AND DOWNS”: http://www.andrewtobias.com/bkoldcolumns/070118.html (accessed 18 January 2007).
♦ “GREAT MUTATION”: Carl Bridenbaugh, “The Great Mutation,” American Historical Review 68, no. 2 (1963): 315–31.
♦ “NOTWITHSTANDING THE INCESSANT CHATTER”: Ibid., 322.
♦ A THOUSAND PEOPLE IN THE BALLROOM: “Historical News,” American Historical Review 63, no. 3 (April 1963): 880.
♦ TENDED TO SLOT THE PRINTING PRESS: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), 25.
♦ “DATA COLLECTION, STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS”: Ibid., xvi.
♦ “A DECISIVE POINT OF NO RETURN”: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, “Clio and Chronos: An Essay on the Making and Breaking of History-Book Time,” History and Theory 6, suppl. 6: History and the Concept of Time (1966), 64.
♦ “ATTITUDES TOWARD HISTORICAL CHANGE”: Ibid., 42.
♦ “SCRIBAL CULTURE”: Ibid., 61.
♦ PRINT WAS TRUSTWORTHY, RELIABLE, AND PERMANENT: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, 624 ff.
♦ “AS I SEE IT … MANKIND IS FACED WITH NOTHING SHORT OF”: Carl Bridenbaugh, “The Great Mutation,” 326.
♦ “THIS IS A MISREADING OF THE PREDICAMENT”: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein,