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Quotes About Networks

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Fernando Flores made a brave move forward, proposing that we design our organizations around the networks of commitments being made and that these commitments be made explicit.
~ Fernando Flores
In fact, extensive informal networks are so important that if they do not exist, creating them has to be the focus of activity early in a major leadership initiative.
~ Harvard Business School Press
Strong networks of informal relationships—the kind found in companies with healthy cultures—help coordinate leadership activities in much the same way that formal structure coordinates managerial activities.
~ Harvard Business School Press
If networked science is to reach its potential, scientists will have to embrace and reward the open sharing of all forms of scientific knowledge, not just traditional journal publication. Networked science must be open science.
~ Michael Nielsen
Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.
~ Mikko Hypponen
Over half of the traffic that flows over our networks is coming from video. As you think about a business that is going to be video centric and video focused, you want to have scale on the video programming side to be able to take advantage of this.
~ Randall L. Stephenson
The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.
~ Paul A. Volcker
Transnational organized cybercriminal groups have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and ordinary citizens.
~ Dmitri Alperovitch
Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!
~ SPIRO AGNEW
system is a set of things, actions, ideas, and information that interact with each other, and in so doing, alter other systems.
~ Michael E. Gerber
No one seemed to be exploring the most efficient and least disruptive ways to remove people from social networks.
~ Michael Lewis
As communicable disease spreads through social networks, Richard reasoned, you had to find ways to disrupt those networks.
~ Michael Lewis
My goal is for 'The Bill Engvall Show' to be a show the networks look at and say, 'Ooh, maybe we should get back to the family sitcom.'
~ Bill Engvall
Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.
~ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
~ Yuri Milner
The antigovernment paradigm blinds us to possibilities that lie outside its ideological litmus tests and prevents us from creating new networks of cooperation that can restore economic growth, bring economic opportunity to more people and places, and increase our ability to lead the world to a better future.
~ Bill Clinton
But the simple availability of information about corruption tends not to produce genuine accountability because the politically active part of the population are members of clientelistic networks.
~ Francis Fukuyama
El centro de la telaraña, según nos van a revelar los estudios de caso más adelante, eran las relaciones personales, privadas, del jefe del grupo o responsable del país con los más altos niveles del Estado y los partidos, y también, en el caso del jefe de proyectos, con los niveles medios y bajos de la red.
~ Francisco Durand
Value networks are needed to succeed within a field. That's why we form them. And that is, as you may have guessed, where all the trouble starts.
~ Frans Johansson
C-CNE, for Counter-Computer Network Exploitation—penetrating an adversary's networks in order to watch him penetrating our networks.
~ Fred Kaplan
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence—free of the networks of dead speech.
~ Freya Stark
When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
~ Steve Jobs
A century ago the Spanish flu confounded scientists and devastated whole regions, but while today's society has air travel and an enormous, heterogeneous population, we also have antibiotics, fantastic communication networks and, perhaps most crucially, more data than ever.
~ Hannah Fry