Quotes About Community

informal user group. High-performance windsurfing involves acrobatics such as jumps and

Moreover, individual users do not have to develop everything they need on their own:

individual users do not have to develop everything they need on their own: they can benefit from innovations developed

Dedicated to all who are building the information commons.

By 1998, more than a million people were engaged in windsurfing, and a large fraction of the boards sold incorporated the user-developed innovations for the high-performance sport.

At some point as interest in a topic grows, there is a transition from dyadic academic relationships to a real research community. In my case, the essential person in enabling that transition was

than a million people were engaged in windsurfing, and a large fraction of the boards sold incorporated the user-developed innovations for the high-performance sport.

Please remember that even when we stand apart, we still stand together.

strangers were just people he hadn't become friends with yet.

This neighborhood is a lifeboat in a storm we can't stop. Only so many people can be in our boat, no matter how many swimmers you see bobbing about in the ocean. If you try to pull in too many, you sink. You save nobody, including those who were in the boat. Our priority has to be those who are in the boat, because we can't save all of those who need to be in the boat. Our only exception has been when those on the outside can make our lifeboat stronger and more self-sustaining.

the twenty-first century might be termed a Ludic Century, an epoch in which games and play are the model for how we interact with culture and with each other.

They is no place for me in this world , I am surround by many people but still feel alone.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

Delve far enough into Metal, and you'll find environmentalists.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

As anonymity and indifference can evaporate the spirit of complicity between people, just a bit of a chat can bring some shining light in a cloudy climate. ( "Un brin de causette svp" ) .

Everyone feels like an alien to someone else or even sometimes to oneself. Whether native, foreigner or exile, whether assimilated or singular, whether straight or gay, important is to find an access to the open public space, the 'space of appearance' and the gate to a citizenship of the world. (Township)

What does lasting value mean in a society that is only interested in immediate results? How should we judge a community that simply takes short term projects in account and merely looks at a short-sighted horizon? In point of fact, a clear vision goes beyond a misty horizon. Through its mental dimension, the quality of vision stands out to the sheer physical, geographical or time-based horizon. ("Horizon and Vision" )

Who is destroying the mountains of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia?...It isn't the coal companies. It's us...You did this. Okay, forget the guilt. How can we change that?

Gay people never give up!

It was what Raymond Chandler would have called "a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.