"To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata."

David Weinberger Literature See all quotes by David Weinberger →

React to this quote

More by David Weinberger

“Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.”

“The cure to information overload is more information.”

“The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.”

Resonant Thoughts

"When a man sets out upon any course of inquiry, the object of his search may be either light or fruit — either knowledge for its own sake or knowledge for the sake of good things to which it leads. In…"

— Arthur Cecil Pigou

Economics1877–1959

#science

"Dear friend! I am still staying in Oosterbeek as you can see but I will now leave in 2 days. The last days I spent on two small paintings ordered by Mr. de Visser. I painted them in a happy atmosphere…"

— Anton Mauve

Art1838–1888

#science

"This fact, that all charges are integral multiples of a fundamental unit, is still one of the unexplained puzzles of fundamental physics. It does not in any way contradict electromagnetic theory, but …"

— John C. Slater

Science1900–1976

#science

"In April of 1959, ten of this country's leading scholars forgathered on the campus of Purdue University to discuss the nature of information and the nature of decision... What interests do these men h…"

— Robert E. Machol

Literature1917–1998

#science