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+{{cquote|I was one of the editors of first edition of The American Heritage Dictionary. For five years I laboriously, but happily, researched the meanings of words using the only tools available -- printed reference works and citations (words in context). Along the way I experienced the odd veneration in which lexicographers are held while observing first-hand our fallibility. Eventually I worked for an online information service designed for librarians and learned how rigorous the best of their tradition is about the quality of information. The saying goes, you can have information fast, cheap, or accurate -- pick any two. The remarkable thing to me is that, to the extent I am able to cross check information I take from the Wikipedia, it almost always satisfies all three criteria. A former harmless drudge -- still harmless but no longer needing to drudge -- I tip my hat to every contributor to the Wikipedia and to its founder. It is a shame many of my former dictionary colleagues did not live to see what you've accomplished.}}
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 {{cquote|wikipedia saved my life, i had two medication that i got at the ER and the doctor didn't tell me anything about them, i looked it up on wiki and found out that the pills are never to be taken together}}