Quotes About Curation

Choice architecture in domains from human resource departments to social security to health care must use some combination of curation and navigation tools. If they don't, people will flounder. As we have mentioned, some people have a simple philosophy: Just Maximize Choices. That's not always a bad idea, but it can be problematic without sophisticated choice architecture tools. Instead, a well-curated small selection and/or a good default can produce quite satisfactory outcomes.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.

For anyone who devours the web on a daily basis, the biggest problem is too much of a good thing. There's so much extraordinary content - from articles to images, videos and Tweets - that it's almost impossible to keep track of it.

Now, not every blog post or 'Top 10 Ways to Make Money on the Internet' piece deserves to live forever. But there's gold among the dross, and there are web publications that we would do well to preserve for historical purposes.

Everything I post online is curated.

People so often forget that their Instagram is more than just their latest post. Before posting, step back and look at the bigger picture, a.k.a. your 'flow.'

On average, people miss about 70 percent of the posts in their 'Instagram' feed. What this is about is making sure that the 30 percent you see is the best 30 percent possible.

I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

I especially like to collect contemporary art.

We usually overrecord. Then we boil it down to the cream of the cream.

The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.

I love things like the Criterion Collection DVDs. I think those are really well done. I like how far you can push the deluxe-ness of things like that.

I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things.

I think the Huffington Post has been inventive and presents what it aggregates well.

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

I believe that when you're making a mix, you're making history.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.