David Weinberger Quotes

Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

The Internet is the single biggest creator of ignorance mankind has ever created, as well as the single biggest eliminator of that ignorance. It’s our ability to filter that eliminates the former and empowers the latter.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

When did ignorance become a point of view?

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Just because you've Googled something doesn't mean you've learned.

For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time.

We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.

We thought the Internet would enlighten everyone, but it's given everyone access to more ignorance, and given ignorant people an opportunity to organize themselves and congregate.

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.