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

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Source : 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

David Weinberger

#Data Quotes #Exotic Quotes #Landscape Quotes

“I don't necessarily agree with everything I read about my films, but I wouldn't highlight a specific misconception: If people think this or that about myself or my work, they must have their reasons.”
“Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .”
“Sometimes I run and I don't even feel the effort of running. I don't even feel the ground. I'm just drifting. Incredible feeling. All the agony and frustration, they're all justified by one moment like that”
“Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.”
“Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.”
“Bobby and I were married in 1954 and by now we know that anger does not mean "I don't love you" or "I want a divorce." It means, "I am wounded and in need of love, and I feel safe telling you about it because you are my family." Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.”
“My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.”
“Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.”

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