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

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

David Weinberger

#Dust Quotes #Collectors Quotes

“There's a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.”
“I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.”
“I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.”
“To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.”
“I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.”
“Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.”
“The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.”

Source : Arthur Twining Hadley (1807). “Baccalaureate Addresses, and Other Talks on Kindred Themes”, p.54
“It's like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.”

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