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

Transparency is the new objectivity.

The cure to information overload is more information.

Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.

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.

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.

To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.

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.

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

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.

Stop your weeping. Grief is for the dead.

Sophisticating meat eating doesn't make it any less savage.

Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.

So before everyone begins the big party for 'Brontosaurus' and celebrates this huge diversity of sauropod names, let's hold our horses.

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

Going to the mountains is going home.

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily.

The key to change is to let go of fear.