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Defrag day two: an awful lot of us

Okay, so my brain still needs to reflect, analyze, and (I hope) synthesize after day two at Defrag. So I’m just going to share some quotes from folks speaking at Defrag. These are from my notes, so mistakes and possible ‘hey that’s taken out of context’ problems are all mine.

“If you can state everything explicitly about a character, the character is a failure.”
- David Weinberger

“We’re in the model T phase of these tools. You have to turn the crank and know where the carburator is and how to adjust it.”
-Jerry Michalski

“I don’t know what your rights are, I know what you can demand as a consumer to be pleased.”
- Esther Dyson

“Search sucks relative to its potential.”
- Jeremie Miller

“Friends is surreal in the enterprise.”
- Kevin Marks

“Stories are patterns of events in time.”
-JC Herz

“Libraries are the last great noncommercial third spaces in our culture.”
- Karen Schneider

“I’m more worried about information underload — how do we make sure people get the information they need?”
- Paul Kedrosky

“It’s not a tools problem. It’s a what do you care about problem.”
- Chris Shipley

“One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‘us’.”
- Douglas Adams in 1999, quoted by Kevin Marks

Sounds like a great event — will have to read more about this.