David Weinberger Quotes

• The cure to information overload is more information.

  David Weinberger

  Information, Information Overload, Cures

  "The Cure to Information Overload Is More Information". Hyperorg.com, May 24, 2005.

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• The smartest person in the room, is the room.

  David Weinberger

  Rooms, Persons

  David Weinberger (2014). “Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room”, p.13, Basic Books

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• Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.

  David Weinberger

  Metadata

  "Knowledge at the End of the Information Age". Bertha Bassam lecture, University of Toronto, February 07, 2008.

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• This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.

  David Weinberger

  Idiot, Best Times, Seekers

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• Transparency is the new objectivity.

  David Weinberger

  Objectivity, Transparency

  "Does journalism still require impartiality?" by Kellie Riordan, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2014.

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• The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.

  David Weinberger

  Data, Exotic, Landscape

  David Weinberger (2014). “Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room”, p.195, Basic Books

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• It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes your power because it diminishes your presence.

  David Weinberger

  Giving, Hoarding, Who You Know

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• Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.

  David Weinberger

  Jobs, Learning, Knowledge

  Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger (2011). “The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.195, Basic Books

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• To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.

  David Weinberger

  Dust, Metadata, Collectors

  David Weinberger (2007). “Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder”, p.216, Macmillan

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• Personalization is the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them, so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.

  David Weinberger

  Messages, Pieces, Who We Are

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• How we organize our world reflects not only the world but also our interests, our passions, our needs, our dreams.

  David Weinberger

  Dream, Passion, Our World

  David Weinberger (2007). “Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Don't think of the Internet as a broadcast medium...think of it as a conversational space. Conversation is the opposite of marketing. It's talking in our own voices about things we want to hear about.

  David Weinberger

  Thinking, Talking, Opposites

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• Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.

  David Weinberger

  Defining, Conversation

  Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger (2011). “The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.195, Basic Books

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• The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.

  David Weinberger

  Persistence, Elements, World

  "The Internet is not a medium". Hyperorg.com, March 27, 2004.

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• Your organization is becoming hyperlinked. Whether you like it or not. It's bottom-up; it's impossible.

  David Weinberger

  Organization, Marketing, Becoming

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