David Amerland

“Semantic search requires three things: Trust, Authority and Reputation. All three revolve around your digital profiles, their activity and the sentiment levels and engagement that each generates. Semantic search also requires differentiation – the ability of search to understand the “uniqueness” of you.”

“The presence of Knowledge Based Trust in organizations gives rise to a high level of interpersonal trust amongst their members and creates cohesive units out of a loose bunch of people.”

“Before you can act you must choose. Before you can choose you must know. Before you can know you must feel. And before you can feel you must be trained.”

“Mindless action without a real understanding of the ramifications is only likely to result in serious miscalculations or a colossal waste of time. Avoid both by using your judgment, filtered through both knowledge and experience. Use common sense and logic as a counterbalance to emotion.”

“Despite the fact that logic tells us that we should not trust anyone, in any situation where the unknown variables are too many or the risks too high, we nevertheless go ahead and take what can only be called a leap of faith.”

“Confidence, even when under pressure, has a way of turning an impossible situation into just another challenge to be met.”

“Trust is an ethereal quality. Like oxygen or light we notice it only by its absence.”

“Initial or mutual trust (the type of trust that makes us, irrationally, trust strangers) then enabled the complex planning that allowed man to transition from a tribe of hunter-gatherers whose fate depended on external factors to an agricultural society where complex, planned outcomes could be put into motion.”

“Life at the edge of the world, it was felt, could go on forever.”

“Risks must balance rewards.”

“Leaders lead by example. No leader asks more than he is prepared to give himself.”

“Every physical response, every psychological change and every mental transformation starts with the mind.”

“It seems perverse that we can be more social than anyone would have thought possible when we are at our most anti-social, locked away from the world and silently staring at a computer screen, but that, as psychologists will tell you is the way we operate. When we are at the maximum of our disconnect we also are ready to connect and feel the need for interaction.”