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Quotes About Networks

Hierarchies are critical in enabling networks to reach larger sizes before diseconomies of scale set in. This is why so many networks in the natural and computer worlds are structured as networks within networks.
~ Eric D. Beinhocker
So when we do not have much money, we should give it away anyway. It can be exchanged for other currencies that we need more than mere money. When we give, we interact with others and we exchange other currencies. When we give, we form trusting networks and create community. When we give, we start things moving and flowing again, recirculating different currencies through the community.
~ Eric H.F. Law
easier to imagine starting a family where we were known only as a couple—no memory of Rachel, no complicated preexisting social networks, no potentially difficult relations nearby. I wanted children badly, maybe in part to mark how different my second marriage was from the first.
~ Ben Lerner
We never saw Google+ Circles or Facebook Lists as reflective of the way our friendships play out.
~ Evan Spiegel
5G goes beyond the regular operator business; it's a business revolution.
~ Borje Ekholm
Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.
~ Kristen Schaal
Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism.
~ Jacqueline Novogratz
Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia into its low-end production networks across the second half of the twentieth century - just like Europe had integrated the U.S. before.
~ Thomas P.M. Barnett
With the appearance of communications networks and interconnected computers, we got the world wide web, and it changed the lives of most people, I think.
~ Marvin Minsky
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.
~ Ben Horowitz
New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might put it to you, 'Jane is now friends with Tom.' The connection has been made; the picture is getting more complete.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
There's still too much filler, copycat programming that's out there. We work so hard to pioneer new ideas, and then those ideas are just regurgitated by other networks. That's not good for anybody, I think. That's not good for our business. That's not good for our audience.
~ Nancy Dubuc
Importantly, companies are using social media to do things that go way beyond just chatting up existing customers on Facebook. Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools.
~ Ryan Holmes
Now the playbook is we build AI tools to go find these fake accounts, find coordinated networks of inauthentic activity, and take them down; we make it much harder for anyone to advertise in ways that they shouldn't be.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
In the future, I think it's pretty plausible that collective intelligence tools and skills will be important in order to be a part of global dialog, global business, and global creativity. People who know how to negotiate collective intelligence networks are going to be in a good position to contribute to global society.
~ Jane McGonigal
Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools.
~ Ryan Holmes
If you're serious about your music, there's this thing called The Remix Project in Toronto, and it's an art incubator, and it's basically like free school. If you don't got money for studio, you don't have the networks, they help you.
~ Jessie Reyez
This is a time of great confusion, of great darkness; other networks are slipping in through other dimensional planes. Soon the network of enlightenment will leave this earth.
~ Frederick Lenz
On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.
~ Jon Stewart
Communication land lines are going to be around for a long time, the internet runs on them, as do the wireless cell phone towers.
~ Steven Magee
Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.
~ Marge Piercy
If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them.
~ Bill Mollison
In civilized society,' wrote Adam Smith, an individual 'stands at all times in need of the co-operation and assistance of great multitudes, while his whole life is scarce sufficient to gain the friendship of a few persons.
~ Matt Ridley
If we think that innovation comes from a lone genius inventing a new technology from scratch, that model naturally steers us toward certain policy decisions, like stronger patent protection. But if we think that innovation comes out of collaborative networks, then we want to support different policies and organizational forms: less rigid patent laws, open standards, employee participation in stock plans, cross-disciplinary connections.
~ Steven Johnson