User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/BdWi 2013/Quotes


 * "Science is already a wiki if you look at it a certain way. It’s just a highly inefficient one &mdash; the incremental edits are made in papers instead of wikispace, and significant effort is expended to recapitulate existing knowledge in a paper in order to support the one to three new assertions made in any one paper. &mdash; John Wilbanks. Illustration: papers and wikispace."


 * "What if everyone in the world were in your lab – a ‘hive mind’ of sorts, but composed of countless creative intellects rather than mindless worker ants, and one in which resources, reagents and effort could be shared, along with ideas, in a manner not dictated by institutional and geographical constraints? &mdash; Chris Patil and Vivian Siegel"