Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.

To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.

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

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

Your organization is becoming hyperlinked. Whether you like it or not. It's bottom-up; it's impossible.

The cure to information overload is more information.

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.