Marc Stiegler > Quotes

“In the Information Age, the first step to sanity is FILTERING. Filter the information: extract for knowledge.

Filter first for substance. Filter second for significance. These filters protect against advertising.

Filter third for reliability. This filter protects against politicians.

Filter fourth for completeness. This filter protects against the media.”
― Marc Stiegler, David's Sling

“The Sophisticate: “The world isn’t black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It’s all gray. Therefore, no one is better than anyone else.”

The Zetet: “Knowing only gray, you conclude that all grays are the same shade. You mock the simplicity of the two-color view, yet you replace it with a one-color view….”
― Marc Stiegler, David's Sling

“News people—the media elite—had been a terrible scourge during his childhood. But they had gradually lost power with the advent of bidirectional, reputation-endorsed public commentary via Web links shortly after the turn of the millennium. People who published on the Web—especially people who wanted the title of "reporter"—had to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Failure was brutally and swiftly punished with electronic tar and digital feathers. Despite a rocky start, honesty had taken over as the currency of the Web—a devastating if subtle blow to manipulators of public opinion. Weakened by the Web, the media elite had died alongside their political bedfellows [...}”
― Marc Stiegler, Earthweb

“Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.”
― Marc Stiegler, Ode to Defiance

“I feel like the proverbial man who just stepped off the roof of a twenty-story building. As he passed the tenth floor, his comment was, ‘So far, so good.”
― Marc Stiegler, Ode to Defiance

“To the naive mind…it may seem absurd that…adaptation to the unknown can be achieved more effectively by decentralizing decisions. — F. A. Hayek”
― Marc Stiegler, The Braintrust Complete Series Omnibus

“And on a thousand planets,
with a thousand bodies and a thousand voices,
she leapt in the air and filled the sky with lilting laughter,
a chorus of joy that spanned the arm of a galaxy.”
― Marc Stiegler

“Many scientists are on the autism scale, so technically, autism causes vaccines. —Anonymous viral Facebook observation, 2019”
― Marc Stiegler, Ode to Defiance