David Weinberger famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Organization #Marketing #Becoming
Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.
-- David Weinberger
The cure to information overload is more information.
-- David Weinberger

#Information #Information Overload #Cures
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
Transparency is the new objectivity
-- David Weinberger

#Objectivity #Transparency
The smartest person in the room, is the room.
-- David Weinberger

#Rooms #Persons
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
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
To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.
-- David Weinberger

#Dust #Collectors
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
The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.
-- David Weinberger

#Data #Exotic #Landscape
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

#Pieces #Who We Are #Messages

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