David Weinberger Quotes
If explicit metadata is a real problem, it raises problems that just can't be solved. It's not that we're not good at it; it's the problems cannot be solved because we're not going to agree about these deep questions of how we organize.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.
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I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.
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I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.
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Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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If explicit metadata is a real problem, it raises problems that just can't be solved. It's not that we're not good at it; it's the problems cannot be solved because we're not going to agree about these deep questions of how we organize.
