The people with knowledge and the people with ideas can't and won't communicate with each other. Our society is at an intellectual nadir, exactly when our collective creativity is most desperately neede - Dussault, http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2009/07/31.html#a2416
The more advanced we become in our own field of practice, the further we leave behind those who might benefit most from our know-how - Frank Connolly http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2009/08/kmaus09_frank.php
The major incidents of the last decade, from Enron, 9/11 and the Katrina response, to climate change and the latest financial market meltdown, are all ultimately knowledge management failures -- problems that arose because critical knowledge transfer never took place. The "cost of not knowing" is in the trillions, perhaps quadrillions of dollars - Dave Pollard, http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2008/10/17.html#a2265
The idea is not to create an encyclopaedia of everything that everybody knows, but to keep track of people who 'know the recipe', and nurture the technology and culture that will get them talking - Arian Ward, Hughes Space & Communications
The belief that knowledge is intrinsically benign is perhaps the definitive modern myth - John Gray, http://www.markvernon.com/friendshiponline/dotclear/index.php?post/2009…
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle - Robert Newton Anthony (b. 1916), American writer
Most humans are kind, curious, knowledgeable, tolerant and funny - Stephen Fry http://www.stephenfry.com/blog/2009/01/29/twitter/
More and more, knowledge management is going to be about reducing the cost of, and simplifying the process for, letting someone watch what you do. Nonintrusively. Time-shifted. Place-shifted. Searchable. Archivable. Retrievable - Nancy White
Make sure your knowledge has a customer - Kent Greene
Knowledge without mileage is bullshit - Henry Rollins, Times, 14/01/10