Quotes About Interconnectedness

The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

No man is an island, No man stands alone; Each man's joy is joy to me, Each man's grief is my own. We need one another, So I will defend Each man as my brother, Each man as my friend.

it is never just the robins communicating with the other robins, the song sparrows with the other song sparrows, the juncos with the other juncos. In the yard and in the trees, it's everyone communicating with (because they are eavesdropping on) everyone else—spring, summer, fall, and winter: ripples within ripples, a vast web with many seams and confusions; concentric rings bouncing off concentric rings; subtle sounds, subtle scents, subtle movements.

No one can live happily who has regard to himself alone and transforms everything into a question of his own utility; you must live for your neighbour, if you would live for yourself. —SENECA

Anything that binds people together into dense networks of trust makes people less selfish.

Anything that binds people together into dense networks of trust makes people less selfish. In

My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

When the head aches, all the body is the worse.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

Hierarchies are critical in enabling networks to reach larger sizes before diseconomies of scale set in. This is why so many networks in the natural and computer worlds are structured as networks within networks.

If the shrike did not eat the grasshoppers, then the grasshoppers would eat all the grass, and there would be none left for the deer...and the deer are food for the tiger. Life in the jungle is a giant spiderweb; if you touch one strand, it will vibrate at the other end. We cannot separate nature into good and bad, Rita. The gods do not will it so.

In a complex system such as our world today, this is all it might take for the overall system to become destabilized, leading to a collapse.

As living beings, each step into connection, no matter how small, is a step toward our greater being. Peace comes from connection—connection with all that you are, all that you do, and each other.

Metcalfe's law: the value of a network as a whole is proportional to the square of the number of participants. In other words, the more people in the network, the more valuable the network.

Como dicen en la teoría de sistemas, lo que optimiza una parte del sistema necesariamente debilita el sistema en su conjunto.)

Metcalfe's law: the value of a network as a whole is proportional to the square of the number of participants.

increase the ease with which innovators can build larger systems from interlinkable modules created by community participants. Free and open source software projects are a relatively well-developed and very successful form of Internet-based innovation community. However, innovation communities are by no means restricted to software or even to

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

In these circumstances, when consciousness is insufficiently differentiated from the unconscious, and the ego from the group, the group member finds himself as much at the mercy of group reactions as of unconscious constellations.

Centroversion is the innate tendency of a whole to create unity within its parts and to synthesize their differences in unified systems.

In the early uroboric state there is a fusion both of man with the world and of the individual with the group.