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.

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

Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

The love at Christmas should be with us throughout the coming year.

Who owns a man, Durnik?” the blond young man asked sadly. “The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.

But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Always root for the winner. That way you won't be disappointed.