The smartest person in the room, is the room.

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.

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.

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

We are the flower of love in the garden we call earth.

Jem is my greatest sin.

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].

We all need people who will help us look at situations from a different perspective.

If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.

I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.

Handbags, I don't at all like them because they occupy my hands. My hands always have to be ready in case I need to slap somebody.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros.