Jason Scott
American technology historian and archivist
(Redirected from Jason Scott Sadofsky)
Jason Scott Sadofsky (born September 13, 1970), more commonly known as Jason Scott, is an American archivist and historian of technology.
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Quotes edit
- [Yahoo!] found the way to destroy the most massive amount of history in the shortest amount of time with absolutely no recourse.
- So you can be a historian and also be an asshole.
- “Google is a library or archive like a supermarket is a food museum.”[1]
- Variation: Treating Google like an Archive is like treating a supermarket like a Food Museum.[2]
- "Neutral Point of View is a doctrine about how Wikipedia articles should be written. Like wikipedia itself, it is a great idea in theory. In application, of course, it turns into yet another hammer for wonks and whackjobs to beat each other and innocent bystanders."
- The Great Failure of Wikipedia (19 November 2004).
Quotes about Jason Scott edit
- Jason Scott is an arrogant, self-impressed idiot who thinks he's god's gift to techies because he remembers "the golden days" of BBS's.
- A 2006 comment on Slashdot by a user named Superbanana, which Jason Scott appropriated for use in the banner of his textfiles site. The original post was in Wikipedia Wars -- Late Express Ferry (28 August 2006)..
External links edit
- ↑ Jason Scott: Archive Team (2012-02-24).
- ↑ Tweet by @textfiles, Jan 21, 2020, 12:35 AM: “But as I've said before: Treating Google like an Archive is like treating a supermarket like a Food Museum. It's not true, it doesn't scale, and it's ridiculously precarious.”