Quotes About Community

People planted seeds into me. Older cats gave me the game. My family, especially my mother, gave me the game and I pass it on. That's what it's about. If somebody gives you mental jewelry and you wear it for so long, you want to give it to somebody else for them pass it on.

I got busy with planting saplings after I started the Green Globe initiative.

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

One of the criticisms we get is, 'Does the world need more plastic crap?' But you have to look beyond the plastic crap, to the design, to the experience, to the empowering nature of the MakerBot and the community.

I always felt like I was kind of an outsider because I didn't have the right things. I didn't have a Cadillac. I didn't have, you know, plastic on my furniture. That was the right way to be if you were Italian.

All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.

Keeping lice out of schools should be a herd immunity type of attitude. Schools should send home brochures with a plastic comb attached in an envelope.

Our lifestyle is deeply communal, with extended families traditionally sharing the burdens and bounties of life together, eating meals from the same plate.

I would argue that the culture is not the frosting on the cake: the culture is the plate the cake sits on.

At home, I never plate. Things go in the middle of the table, and you serve yourself. In the restaurant, every day I plate things, but at home, I want to enjoy my company.

My dad was known as a mean guy. He never smiled, and he had 'Mr. Mean' put on his license plate. But he was one of the neighborhood dads who looked out for everyone. He would take kids in and help them out.

My parents were out of town and sent me to stay at my grandma's house. That's where I learned how to make pancakes. I served them to all the old ladies who lived on her block. After the meal, they each left a $5 bill next to their plates. I thought, 'Hey, I'm onto something here.'

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

With my platform, anyway, I want to try and do good things and want to help people.

A lot of my fans come from the SoundCloud platform.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.

To me, 'Chopped' is a great platform for championing great causes.

We don't want to be a design line. Ultimately, we want to be a platform that houses many design aesthetics.

For me, it has always been about using my platform to help others.

We are a bottom-up culture, and we need a communications platform that can facilitate that.

It's a blessing to be able to use my platform to bring more awareness to the local causes that are near and dear to my heart.

We love that our platform allows people to give.

We don't expect Google as a first party service to provide all the answers. Part of the reason a platform is successful is because there are very very important things from other companies and other developers on top of the platform.