This is the best source of the "zeroth law" of Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Raul654/Raul%27s_laws#Laws_by_others
I believe people have tried to track down the original coiner, but noone really knows.
Thanks, Pharos
2010/6/17 Jon Harald Søby jhsoby@gmail.com:
Yes, it's communism that works in theory but not in practice. :-)
2010/6/17 Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com
Isn't the quote backwards? "The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. It could never work in theory"?
-Dan On Jun 17, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Sue Gardner wrote:
"The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in theory. It could never work in practice."
I've seen that quote attributed to Jimmy, and also to Miikka Ryokas, quoted by Noam Cohen in his NY Times story about Virginia Tech. But neither of them, I think, originated it.
Does anyone have a good attribution for first use of that quote? (I'm using it in a presentation and want to attribute if I can.)
Thanks, Sue
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