Quotes About Community

Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.

It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day.

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.

The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.

No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.

Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.

This milestone was the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron, Ohio, in June of 1935.

To learn to ask for help and guidance from people who are trustworthy,

Ye'll try the world soon, my lad; And, Andrew dear, believe me, Ye'll find mankind an unco squad

Birds of a feather will gather together.

Who can justify the expense of a six-lane highway through the middle of a small town that anticipates growth? Who would want such a road through their town?

It is no longer sufficient that every programmer does what is right in their own eyes. Some disciplines, standards, and ethics will come. The decision before us today is whether we programmers will define them for ourselves or have them forced upon us by those who don't know us.

If we really want to spend our days programming, we are going to have to learn to talk to—people.1

Professionals work together. You can't work together while you are sitting in corners wearing headphones. So I want you sitting around tables facing each other. I want you to be able to smell each other's fear. I want you to be able to overhear someone's frustrated mutterings. I want serendipitous communication, both verbal and body language. I want you communicating as a unit.

Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.

Programming is so hard, in fact, that it is beyond the capability of one person to do it well. No matter how skilled you are, you will certainly benefit from another programmer's thoughts and ideas.

Programming is a social activity.

It involves the passage to the new leader of something of the authority possessed by his predecessor, the general recognition of him as rightful head of the political community.

Amish are known to be abstainers, law-abiding. They're also deeply devout Christians. Why didn't they stop their truck and come back to help?