The cure to information overload is more information. David Weinberger More Quotes by David Weinberger More Quotes From David Weinberger Every embarrassing moment is going to be shown on the Internet, whether the candidate likes it or not. The ones that can't deal with that are going to fail. David Weinberger candidatefailmomentinternet 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. David Weinberger democracysickpartyspirit I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign. David Weinberger controlyousucceedgiving History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes. David Weinberger changeseventsimportanthistory Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it's provisional; it's a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved. David Weinberger agewaitingpastknowledge 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. David Weinberger bestmomenthopeknowledge In the university library, we know when a book has been used in a class or put on reserve... or while it was out, did somebody call it back in. It turns out to be a pretty good indicator of how relevant the work is at that time. David Weinberger goodlibraryworktime 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. David Weinberger youcommunityworkpeople We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles. David Weinberger knowyousocietyprinciples
