David Weinberger Quotes & Sayings

“The degree to which campaigns have become dominated by marketing is breaking the spirit of democracy, and we're all just so sick of it, across party lines.”

“How your social network - the people that you know, or in your community - understand or value a work can be... a tremendously relevant indicator of how important or meaningful it's going to be to you.”

“I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.”

“We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.”

“With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives at the level of the network.”

“History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.”

“The world is deterministic, but it's chaotic and emergent.”

“Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that individuals are working within the social network.”

“Knowledge is now accepted as the best we humans can do at the moment, but with the hope that we will turn out to be wrong - and thus to advance our knowledge. What's happening to networked knowledge seems to make it much closer to the scientific idea of what knowledge is.”

“In the digital age, we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts.”