The role of KM is the interface between the past - the storage of all that is known and the future, all that might be - the ideas, insights and concepts developed by people as a result of new combinations of knowledge that they create - Sheila Moorcroft, Business Futures
The real technology, behind all our other technologies, is language - Wired Magazine, January 1999
The problem with information is that there's too darn much of it. Thus KM is really about selective forgetting - David Weinberger.
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 next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it - Samuel Johnson
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 money that you earn from work gets spent. But the knowledge that you earn from work is yours forever - Vedic
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 main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination - Julian Simon
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet - Anon