Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.

To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.

The smartest person in the room, is the room.

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.

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.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.

Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.