Annotation Quotes

• I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.

  Desiderio Erasmo

  Book, Use, Thumbs

  Desiderius Erasmus, Richard J. Schoeck, Beatrice Corrigan (1974). “Collected Works of Erasmus: The correspondence of Erasmus”

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• You know how misleading an image is. You see an image in the newspaper, if they left the caption off, good luck knowing what's going on. There is something inherently misleading about images, so they need annotation.

  Ben Katchor

  Good Luck, Knowing, Needs

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• La economía de la sindicación televisiva y las ventas de DVD se traduce en una enorme presión financiera para hacer programas que puedan verse varias veces, revelando nuevos matices y matices en el tercer visionado. Mientras tanto, la Web ha creado un foro de anotaciones y comentarios que permite que los programas más complicados prosperen, gracias a los sitios de fans en los que cada episodio de series como "Perdidos" o "Alias" se disecciona con una intensidad normalmente reservada a los estudiosos del Talmud.

  Steven Johnson

  Mean, Dvds, Fans

  "Ver la televisión te hace más inteligente". www.nytimes.com. 24 de abril de 2005.

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• One of the problems, hanging out with me, is that I can turn any topic into a toxic horror story. I've lost two girlfriends and a job by reading an ingredients label out loud, with annotations, at the wrong time.

  Neal Stephenson

  Girlfriend, Jobs, Reading

  Neal Stephenson (2007). “Zodiac”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications. We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Thinking, Wikipedia, Amazon

  "Forum: The Road Ahead". content.time.com. November 09, 2005.

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• To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines and newspaper columns, they often made more mistakes in their annotations than the players had made at the board.

  Garry Kaspárov

  Mistake, Player, Games

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.95, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.

  Jack Dorsey

  Reality, Cities, Long

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