User:Mdd

Marcel Douwe Dekker (Mdd) (1964), Dutch systems engineer, conceptual artist and since 2004 Wikipedia editor, focusing on the Systems sciences, Modeling and Visualization, and related engineering and management disciplines.

My ideas about Wikiquote
Wikiquote is a cooperation to establish a free online compendium. However, the collection of quotes is not an end in itself. There is an endeavor to determine and select notable quotes from notable people and/or notable sources. It is often the intention to give the readers a general introduction of the most elementary and original thoughts from authors and about subjects. We want to give the reader an impression of the most original ideas about the world, we live in. The Wikiquote articles offer a collection of quotes, complementary to corresponding Wikipedia articles, and inform about the people and notable works present at Wikiquote.
 * On goals

With Wikiquotes main focus on people and notable works, my priorities are on theme's and scientists. I think thematic articles are indispensable in constructing a comprehensive online compendium. Quotes can be short as aphorism, or longer, as prose citation.
 * Focus on themes and scientists

Effective arrangement is the key to make Wikiquote accessible, and encouraging visitors to continue with their visit. Arrangement should take into account the limited time people have available. For that I think, introductions should be short, and every article should have a clear division in the quotes offered.
 * Accessible arrangement

In the context of Wikiquote "Free encyclopedia" means: Contents free of charge, but protected by copyright laws. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
 * Copyright concerns

Almost all lemma start with general introduction copy/pasted from Wikipedia, and often one or more quotes already present in Wikiquote.
 * Start with data from Wikipedia and Wikiquote

Contributions, a selection
Here listed are the first 250+ articles created, unstubbed and/or significantly expanded on Wikiquote. For a full listing (of over 1000 lemma's created), see tools.wmflabs.org.

Themes

 * Accounting • Action research • Ada • Agronomy • ALGOL • Anthropology • APL • Arithmetic • Artificial intelligence • BASIC • Biology • Bounded rationality • Building • Business • C++ • Capital • Chemistry • Citation • Civil engineering • Computer science • Communication • Complex adaptive system • Conceptual model • Cosmology • Corporate governance • Criminology • Critical thinking • Cybernetics • Deflation • Demagogue • Diagram • Dualism • Econometrics • Economic growth • Efficiency • Effectiveness • Electrical engineering • Empiricism • Enterprise architecture • Enterprise engineering • Equilibrium • Executable UML • Extreme programming • Futures studies • Gross Domestic Product • Gross National Product • Fallacy • FORTRAN • French Revolution • Game theory • Geometry • Haskell • Holism • Husbandry • Image • Industrial Revolution • Inflation • Information age • Information management • Information retrieval • Information technology • Information theory • Investment • Java (programming language) • Knowledge • Liberal arts  • Linear programming • Logic • Macroeconomics • Map • Management • Manager • Manufacturing • Market • Materialism • Meaning of life • Measurement • Mechanical engineering • Mechanics • Methodology • Mind control • Mythology • Neuroscience • Object-orientation • Operations research • Optics • Organization chart • Pascal (programming language) • Perl • Personality • Phrenology • Political science • Pragmatism • Problem solving • Project management • Psychoanalysis • Psychotherapy • Ruby • Scientific management • Scientific modelling • Scientists • Smalltalk • Software architecture • Software engineering • Spiritual intelligence • System • Systems engineering • Systems theory • Systems thinking • Theology • Therapy • Urbanization • Visualization • World view

Scientists

 * Russell L. Ackoff • Diederik Aerts • Igor Aleksander • Alhazen • Scott Ambler • Gene Amdahl • Chris Argyris • Kenneth Arrow • W. Brian Arthur • W. Ross Ashby • Averroes • Gregory Balestrero • Béla H. Bánáthy • Gregory Bateson • Kent Beck • Howard S. Becker • John G. Bennett • Warren Bennis • Edward V. Berard • Chester Barnard • Eric Temple Bell • Adolf A. Berle • Peter Bernus • Ludwig von Bertalanffy • Jacques Bertin • Gerrit Blaauw • Barry Boehm • Grady Booch • Edwin Boring • Kenneth Boulding • George E. P. Box • Richard Boyatzis • Valentino Braitenberg • Walter F. Buckley • James Burnham • Tom R. Burns • Fritjof Capra • Rudolf Carnap • Herbert N. Casson • Manuel CastellsEdward Chamberlayne • Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. • Peter Checkland • Harold Chestnut • Clayton M. Christensen • Paul Churchland • C. West Churchman • Paul Cilliers • Peter Coad • Columella • George Dantzig • Ernest Dimnet • Dud Dudley • Hermann Ebbinghaus • Harrington Emerson • Fred Emery • Henry Englefield • Richard F. Ericson • Henri Fayol • Luigi Ferrarese • Robert L. Flood • Jerry Fodor • Jay Wright Forrester • George Forsythe • Douglas John Foskett • Martin Fowler • Mark S. Fox • Lawrence K. Frank • R. Edward Freeman • Hans Freudenthal• Gottlob Frege • Ragnar Frisch • Brian R. Gaines • Galen • John Gall • Frank Honywill George • Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. • Ernst von Glasersfeld • James Gleick • Henry Gantt • Roy R. Grinker, Sr. • Jürgen Habermas • Arthur D. Hall • Michael Halliday • John Harsanyi • Walter Harte • Samuel Hartlib • Richard Hartshorne • Adrian Hastings • Robert Heller • Francis Heylighen • Derek Hitchins • John Hicks • Geert Hofstede • Michael C. Jackson • Ivar Jacobson • Rudolf E. Kálmán • Karl William Kapp • Daniel Katz • Stuart Kauffman • Harold Kerzner • George Klir • Tjalling Koopmans • Thomas Samuel Kuhn • Eugene M. Kulischer • Simon Kuznets • Imre Lakatos • Chris Langton • Ervin László • Wassily Leontief • Jacob Leupold • Kurt Lewin • Donald H. Liles • Edward Norton Lorenz • Ramon Llull • Niklas Luhmann • Robert Staughton Lynd • Alan MacEachren • Robert E. Machol • James Martin (author) • Yukihiro Matsumoto • Humberto Maturana • Ernst Mayr • Daniel McCallum • Warren S. McCulloch • Margaret Mead • James Meade • Gardiner C. Means • Stephen J. Mellor • Mihajlo D. Mesarovic • Gerald Midgley • James Grier Miller • Henry Mintzberg • Jacques Monod • Calvin Mooers] • David Mushet • Gunnar Myrdal • Douglass North • Eugene Odum • Elinor Ostrom • Talcott Parsons • Gordon Pask • Eduard Pestel • Thomas Piketty • Hugh Plat • John R. Platt • Fred Polak • Roy Porter • Ilya Prigogine • Erik Proper • William John Macquorn Rankine • Simon Ramo • Anatol Rapoport • Dennis Holme Robertson • Arthur H. Robinson • Robert Rosen • Allen B. Rosenstein • Douglas T. Ross • Jeanne W. Ross • James Rumbaugh • Bernhard Rumpe • Alan Rusbridger • August-Wilhelm Scheer • Duns Scotus • Sally Shlaer • John R. Searle • Reinhard Selten • Georg Simmel • Herbert Simon  • Adrian Slywotzky • Roger Smith (executive) • Vernon L. Smith • John F. Sowa • George Stigler • Richard Stone • Frederick Winslow Taylor • Isaac Taylor • Ordway Tead‎ • Albrecht Thaer • Jan Tinbergen • James Tobin‎ • Eric Trist • Arnold Tustin • Francisco Varela • Brian Campbell Vickery • Rein Vihalemm • Immanuel Wallerstein • William Grey Walter • Thomas Watson, Jr. • Thaddus E. Weckowicz • Gerald Weinberg • Margaret Wheatley • Oliver E. Williamson • Rebecca Wirfs-Brock • Benjamin Lee Whorf • Clinton Edgar Woods • Daniel A. Wren • A. Wayne Wymore • Qian Xuesen • Andrew Yarranton • Ed Yourdon • John Zachman • Lotfi A. Zadeh • Charles Zastrow

More

 * Art, Artists, & Others
 * Constantin Brâncuși • William Burges • Constructivism (art) • Cubism • Fortunato Depero • Charles Eames • Sergei Eisenstein • Frank Gehry • Futurism • Naum Gabo • Impressionism • Industrial design • Donald Judd • Filippo Marinetti • Modern art • Pablo Picasso • Francesco Balilla Pratella • John Prebble • Alan Rusbridger • Francesco Salvi • Michael Schumacher • Philippe Starck • Symbolism (arts) • Jean Tinguely


 * Categories
 * Category:Business theorists • Category:Civil engineers • Category:Cyberneticists • Category:Management • Category:Mechanical engineers • Category:Logicians • Category:Physics • Category:Software engineers • Category:Systems scientists • Category:Systems engineers


 * Templates
 * Template:Sister project links • Template:DNB poster

Examples

 * Sorts of rearrangements,
 * Alphabetized by author (with index); (26) Art, Love, Religion; (12) Science; (6) Judgment, Painting; (4) Cosmology; (no) Writing
 * Alphabetized by author and work: Absurdism
 * Chronological: Freedom of speech, Knowledge, System, Linus Torvalds
 * Chronological and by publications: Albert Einstein
 * Thematic: Politics, Programming languages
 * By works: Aristotle, Emily Brontë


 * Biographical articles with larger section about the author
 * Noam Chomsky, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Hayek, Freddie Mercury, Linus Pauling, Norbert Wiener


 * Classical general and more specific works
 * S. Austin Allibone (ed.), Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544; Subjects, 572; Quotations, 8991, 1880, 1903 edition at archive.org; at at bartleby.com, 2011
 * John Bartlett (1820-1905) ed., Familiar quotations, 1876
 * John Bartlett (1820-1905) ed., Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 14th edition, 1968
 * Tryon Edwards ed. The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors, 1853.
 * Tryon Edwards (ed.), A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern, New York, Cassell publishing company, 1891.
 * L.C. Gent (ed.), Familiar English quotations, 1877.
 * Charles Noel Douglas (ed.), Forty Thousand Quotations Prose and Poetical, 1904
 * Josiah H. Gilbert, Three Thousand Selected Quotations From Brilliant Writers 1909
 * Benham, W. Gurney (ed.), Book of quotations, proverbs and household words, 1914
 * Thomas Benfield Harbottle (ed.), Dictionary of Quotations (Classical), 1906
 * Thomas Benfield Harbottle (ed.), Dictionary Of Quotations Latin, 1909
 * Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (ed.), Hoyt's new cyclopedia of practical quotations, 1922
 * Charles E. Little (ed.) Historical lights, six thousand quotations from standard histories and biographies, 1885
 * Robert Edouard Moritz, Memorabilia mathematica or, The philomath's quotation-book, Published 1914 (at gutenberg.org)
 * Henri Southgate (ed.), Many thoughts of many minds. 1862
 * Jean C.S. Wilson (ed.), Thirteen Author Collections Of The Nineteenth Century And Five Centuries Of Familiar Quotations, 1950


 * More contemporary works
 * David Crystal, Hilary Crystal. Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages, University of Chicago Press, 2000
 * Henry Ehrlich (ed.). The Wiley Book of Business Quotations, Wiley, 2000, 430 pages
 * Carl C. Gaither (ed.), Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations, Springer Science & Business Media, 2008, 821 pages
 * Ted Goodman (ed.), The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 10,000 Thoughts on the Business of Life, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated, 2007, 704 pages.
 * Bill Ridgers (ed.), The Economist Book of Business Quotations Profile Books, 7 jun. 2012, 256 pages; (review)
 * David L. Sills, Robert King Merton (eds.). Social Science Quotations: Who Said What, When, and Where Transaction Publishers, 2000, 437 pages