August 7

August 7 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. ~ Andrew Jackson
 * selected by Nanobug


 * 2004
 * A man should be upright, not kept upright. ~ Marcus Aurelius
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places. ~ Garrison Keillor (born 7 August 1942)
 * proposed by 121a0012


 * 2006
 * We help the internet not suck. ~ Jimmy Wales (born 7 August 1966)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal. ~ Jimmy Wales
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity. ~ Alan Keyes
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2009
 * Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor
 * proposed by 121a0012


 * 2010
 * The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks. ~ Jimmy Wales
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives. ~ Jimmy Wales
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki for the 70th anniversary of the first public announcement of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki, in regard of her recent death.


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on current issues.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
 * Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. ~ Jimmy Wales
 * used 15 January 2006

Suggestions
When someone just writes 'fuck, fuck, fuck', we just fix it, laugh and move on. But the difficult social issues are the borderline cases - people who do some good work, but who are also a pain in the neck. ~ Jimmy Wales (born that day) "Who knows?", The Guardian, October 26, 2004
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:42, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 AllanHainey 12:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 22:34, 5 August 2005 (UTC) "laugh and move on..." 
 * 0 Zarbon 15:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC) His Wikiquote page says he was born August 8.

When a feeling dissolves, it ceases to be your enemy and begins to be one of your allies. ~ Ed Seykota
 * 2 Zarbon 04:57, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:05, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do--for family and for community and for humanity as a whole. ~ Alan Keyes
 * 2 Zarbon 04:57, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:05, 5 August 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal. ~ Alan Keyes
 * 2 Zarbon 04:57, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:05, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands. ~ Alan Keyes
 * 2 Zarbon 04:57, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:05, 5 August 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life. ~ Alan Keyes
 * 2 Zarbon 04:57, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:05, 5 August 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control. ~ Alan Keyes
 * 3 Zarbon 04:57, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:05, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

"The Russians aren't dedicated world dominationists. You know, they just sort of want it on account of a sentimental way, you know, but not like 'By God, we got to have it!' It just doesn't make sense for them to really push too hard, you know, but just to push easy." Herman Kahn


 * 4 Abattoir666 (talk &middot; contributions) 11:33, 5 August 2014 (EST) I'm sorry, but the incessant optimism is kinda killing me, besides, this ones kinda funny.
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 13:51, 5 August 2014 (UTC) there is no clear relation to the date, and there are many others by Kahn I would prefer to use, even on such dates as have more relation to Kahn, or the statement.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 13:51, 5 August 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 13:51, 5 August 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 13:51, 5 August 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 13:51, 5 August 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 13:51, 5 August 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 13:51, 5 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Some of the following suggestions related to Jimmy Wales for a time were posted as suggestions for 8 August, due to disputes as to his birthdate — which seems to have been resolved with his birth occurring on the 7th, just prior to midnight, though it was listed on his birth certificate as the 8th.

We are Wikipedians. This means that we should be: kind, thoughtful, passionate about getting it right, open, tolerant of different viewpoints, open to criticism, bold about changing our policies and also cautious about changing our policies. We are not vindictive, childish, and we don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying.~ Jimmy Wales
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 11:33, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * * 0 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC) Love this quote. I would rate this a '3' but according to this article, Jimmy Wales was born August 8.
 * I will move the suggestions here for quotes of Wales to 8 August, but perhaps retaining them here for reference. ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 12:07, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Greatest misconception about Wikipedia: We aren’t democratic. Our readers edit the entries, but we’re actually quite snobby. The core community appreciates when someone is knowledgeable, and thinks some people are idiots and shouldn’t be writing.~ Jimmy Wales
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 11:33, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 0 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC) [struck as this user was objecting to the error in the date, because this originally was placed on the "7th August" suggestion page]

I don't really agree that most academics frown when they hear Wikipedia. Most academics I find quite passionate about the concept of Wikipedia and like it quite a bit. … The number of academics who really really don't like Wikipedia is really quite small and we find that they get reported on in the media far out of proportion to the amount they actually exist. ~ Jimmy Wales
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 11:33, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 0 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2013 (UTC) [struck as this user was objecting to the error in the date, because this originally was placed on the "7th August" suggestion page]