David Weinberger Quotes

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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

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

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The cure to information overload is more information.

David Weinberger

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

If your medium doesn't easily allow you to correct mistakes, knowledge will tend to be carefully vetted. If it's expensive to publish, then you will create mechanisms that winnow out contenders. If you're publishing on paper, you will create centralized locations where you amass books.... Traditional knowledge has been an accident of paper.

David Weinberger

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

David Weinberger

David Weinberger

David Weinberger

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Born: 1950 (age 74)

Bio: David Weinberger is an American technologist, professional speaker, and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto.

Known for:

The Cluetrain Manifesto (2009)
Everything Is Miscellaneous (2007)
Small Pieces Loosely Joined (2002)
Adventurer's guide to Interleaf Lisp (1994)

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