Quotes About Interconnectedness

When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.

The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.

Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.

To argue against the global economy is like stating opposition to the weather - it continues whether you like it or not.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.

One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which it originated.

We thought that the Internet was going to connect us all together. As a young geek in rural Maine, I got excited about the Internet because it seemed that I could be connected to the world. What it's looking like increasingly is that the Web is connecting us back to ourselves.

Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.

The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.

Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation.

Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

We live in an ever-changing global pop culture community.

Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.

It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade.

The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.

It's funny: your happiness is contingent on a bigger picture besides just yourself.

What happens in Britain, what happens in the world, matters a lot to us in our core business.

If you have a billion people running a phone in every corner of their lives, and all these third-party apps and all these countries and all these languages, there are going to be issues.

I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.