Quotes About Curation

When you look at Yahoo Answers, there can be a lot of garbage. But if you're careful about the rules and supporting good contributions, over time you can get better and better, like Wikipedia.

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.

To a certain extent a museum is a kind of zoo, a presenter and preserver of what

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

Collecting is a way to bring order to the world, which is what museums, our public collectors, do.

I trawl online for great designer pieces and basically never stop. I try to be very selective, I don't just want the site full of stuff, I want it full of great pieces that all sorts of people can wear.

Sometimes there were certain things in 'Limmy's Show' where I'd be having to come up with six episodes and as a result there was stuff in there that wasn't my favourite and I'd think, 'ach I'll shove that in this episode.'

In fact, overwhelmingly museum displays are artificial.

you can pick what you want from the definition, like picking flowers from a garden

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

museums have never existed when art is in good health and creative vitality flourishes. Museums are no more than cemeteries of art, catacombs in which the remains of what were once living things are arranged in sepulchral promiscuity (...) - Théophile Thoré (1861)

Proper DJs don't just trot out a load of nice tunes, they think carefully about the time, the place, and the people in front of them, and choose something that's perfect.

You could compile, I should think, the worst book in the world entirely out of selecting passages from the best writers in the world.

Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.

A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.

With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don't necessarily get credit are the curators.

Spotify, Tidal, and even YouTube, to a degree, are vast and rich troves of music, but they primarily function as search engines organized by algorithms. You typically have to know what you're looking for in order to find it.

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps you do that.

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at.

Clay Shirky summed it up in 2008, and he's still right: "The problem isn't information overload, it's filter failure." Our

Take the tech blog Boing Boing, for instance. They're one of the most visible blogs on the web, but they create very little original content. Rather they act as a filter for the morass of information, pulling up the best stuff. The fact of Boing Boing linking to something far outweighs the thing they're linking to. The culture of citation and name-checking on the web has resulted in a cascade of "re-" gestures: retweeting, reblogging, regramming, and reposting