User:Jacob J. Walker

Hello, I am an "armchair quotographer", who likes to delve into finding the source of quotes, terms, and phrases, with my main tool being Google Books & Google News Archives. You can find some of the work I have done in tracking down quotes (and creating my own) at my Blog.

Verified Quotes
The following are quotes that I have sourced or otherwise researched and added to Wikiquote:


 * Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.
 * Announcement of the America 2000 Education Strategy (18 April 1991) What Work Requires of Schools Pg 2.


 * If you think education is expensive -- try ignorance.
 * Ann Landers, October 4, 1975


 * Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.
 * Kenneth G. Johnson, as cited in Michigan Education Journal - Volumes 36-37 - Page 285, 1958

Apocryphal Quotes

 * Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.
 * An apocryphal quote often attributed to Henry Ford.


 * Teaching is the highest form of understanding
 * A likely apocryphal quote often attributed to Aristotle

Research on the Origin of Coined Words and Phrases

 * "Quotographer"
 * Coined by Ralph Keyes in 2007


 * "Quotology"
 * Coined by William S. Walsh in 1901. Although it should be noted that William S. Walsh did not especially like the coined term.


 * "Free Culture"
 * The contemporary meaning was coined by Lawrence Lessig, although it was used as an agricultural term in the 1800's, and also was a term once used by Kant (or at least a translation of Kant).