David Weinberger Quotes
Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.
Levine, Rick, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger. The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual. Perseus Books, 2000, p. 106.
Giuliani had designs on the Republican Presidential nomination. However, his professional experience had little to do with foreign affairs or foreign policy. As a moderate, New York Republican, he needed to appeal to the extreme right wing base that could veto a Republican candidate. So he wrote this article and presented very articulate, well expressed versions of, right wing, conservative, ideological principles. This one took the old principles of the British Empire where the King or Queen even talking to or writing a foreign diplomat was a great honor to be reserved for those nations who followed the Empire’s desires. A more pragmatic—more democratic view is that diplomats and leaders should talk to anyone if they might be persuasive in furthering our national interest. Despite his oratorical improvement in right wing ideology, Giuliani could not get any traction with the right wing of his party and gave up his Presidential ambitions for 2012.
David Weinberger (born 1950) is an American author, technologist, and speaker. Trained as a philosopher, Weinberger's work focuses on how technology — particularly the internet and machine learning — is changing our ideas, with books about the effect of machine learning’s complex models on business strategy and our sense of meaning; order and organization in the digital age; the networking of knowledge; the Net's effect on core concepts of self and place; and the shifts in relationships between businesses and their markets.
