"Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge."

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

David Weinberger

“I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real me, where my tears joined the tears of all the sad people to form the three waterfalls in the night country.”
“personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.”

Source : Antonio Tabucchi (2002). “Requiem: A Hallucination”, p.99, New Directions Publishing
“Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.”
“Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.”
“Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.”
“I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.”
“I think I'm going to Katmandu,Â that's really, really where I'm going to”
“From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.”

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