Home / Authors / David Weinberger

David Weinberger Quotes

Author

David Weinberger is a renowned author and scholar known for his profound insights into the fields of information, the internet, and knowledge. His work explores the importance of information overload, knowledge sharing, and open data in the digital age.

Filter quotes by topic

All Conversation Defining Internet Marketing Mediums Metadata Politics World Becoming Best Times

Famous David Weinberger Quotes

“Citizens are starting not to excuse political candidates who have web sites that do nothing but throw virtual confetti.”

Politics Political Candidates Election Promises

Book:Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

Source: Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

“Transparency is the new objectivity.”

Transparency Objectivity

Author: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.”

Ifs World Humans Care Bits Levels Internet Conversation Elements Pages Mediums Persistence

Author:David Weinberger

“The cure to information overload is more information.”

Information Cures Overload Information Overload

Author:David Weinberger

“Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.”

Metadata

Author:David Weinberger

“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.”

Feels Individual Pieces Messages Who We Are Software Site Personalization

Author:David Weinberger

“It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes your power because it diminishes your presence.”

Knows Giving Diminish Hoarding Your Presence Who You Know

Author:David Weinberger

“Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.”

Conversation Defining

Book:The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition

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

World Needs Dream Passion Interest Our World Organize Our Dreams

Book:Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

Source: Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

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

Impossible Becoming Organization Bottom Marketing You Like It

Author:David Weinberger

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

Next Wander Data Landscape Exotic Naturalist

Book: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

Source: 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

“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.”

People Jobs Interesting Knowledge Learning Conversation Management Workers Defining Knowledge Workers Interesting Conversation

Book:The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition

“To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.”

Dust Collectors Metadata

Book:Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

Source: Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

“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.”

Idiot Seekers Best Times

Author:David Weinberger

“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.”

Thinking Want Politics Voice Space Talking Internet Conversation Opposites Marketing Mediums

Author:David Weinberger

“The smartest person in the room, is the room.”

Persons Rooms

Book: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

Source: 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

About the Author

Born: 1950
Known for: Author
Quotes: 16

Books & Sources

Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital DisorderRelated source material

The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary EditionRelated source material

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 RoomRelated source material

Similar Authors

Max WeissBrowse related quotes
Michael E. SzymanczykBrowse related quotes
Larry WeberBrowse related quotes
Terence KohBrowse related quotes
Mark BernsteinBrowse related quotes
David FiloBrowse related quotes
Ron BlakeBrowse related quotes
Daniel RothBrowse related quotes
Stewart DalzellBrowse related quotes
Shel IsraelBrowse related quotes