Quotes About Community

The world has always been like a comic book world to me! What's happened is that communications got better and better, so now with cell-phones we can be in touch with people half a globe away.

What worries me is that now, communication is virtual.

All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way.

It is a rare and valuable tonic to share insights, dreams and concerns with people whom you have never met. The sole purpose for such exchanges is simply to give light to one another.

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as communication. But that is very misleading, I think.

The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community that is willing to play its role in the mainstream.

Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

A lack of communication between citizens and policemen is real stuff.

The circle is the fundamental geometry of open human communication.

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.

The electronic town hall allows for speedy communications and bad decision-making.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling. We're all part of the story; we can all contribute and participate.

The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.

We need to build computers for the masses, not the classes.

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each other.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.

It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you're not playing games.