David Weinberger Quotes

The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction

There is no avoiding the realities of the information age. Its effects manifest differently in different sectors, but the drivers of speed and interdependence will impact us all. Organizations that continue to use 20th-century tools in today's complex environment do so at their own peril.

Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.

Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.

We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.

As a former U.S. attorney, I would only align myself with a first-class organization. World Patent Marketing goes beyond making statements about doing business 'ethically' and translates them into action.

Looking back, Google's success came from the fortuitous timing of being born at the cusp of the broadband age. But it also came about because of the new reality of the Internet: a lot of services were going to be algorithmic, and owning your own infrastructure would be a key advantage.

Stealing something from Apple is the most innovative way to be seen as an innovative, digital-first company.

Nasscom has a big mandate - a lot of things come under their umbrella.

Instead of using technology or wearing technology constantly, we will start becoming technology.

Two different things: A crowd is a tribe without a leader. A crowd is a tribe without communication. Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

In the industrial age, the CEO sat on the top of the hierarchy and didn't have to listen to anybody ... In the information age, you have to listen to the ideas of people regardless of where they are in the organization.

I never planned on becoming a brand name. The success of the Trump name worldwide has been a surprise.

But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

To put it another way, I believe that purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. To the degree that you hold purpose and principles in common among you, you can dispense with command and control. People will know how to behave in accordance with them, and they'll do it in thousands of unimaginable, creative ways. The organization will become a vital, living set of beliefs.

The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.

The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event.

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

Your organization can start tweeting, but that wont change its DNA.

The CMO is expected to spend more on technology than the CIO by 2017.

Truly human leadership protects an organization from the internal rivalries that can shatter a culture. When we have to protect ourselves from each other, the whole organization suffers. But when trust and cooperation thrive internally, we pull together and the organization grows stronger as a result.

Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organization—a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.