Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.

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.

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.

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.