Quotes About Interdependence

Can a single ant be said to be alive, in any meaningful sense of the word, or does it only have relevance in terms of its anthill?

We get along by a symbiotic adjustment of habits and with a minimum of that pale-mauve hostility you often find among women.

friendship was always contingent.

We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.

One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others. I was one person: I risked becoming no person.

You'd be surprised how quickly the mind goes soggy in the absence of other people. One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others.

One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others.

But how can she ever get out of it, her life, except through him?

Every breath we inhale comes from nature; kill it and we kill ourselves.

(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.

More connections to more devices means more vulnerabilities.

Technology is an inseparable part of humanity and for true progress to occur, the two must walk hand in hand, with neither one acting as servant to the other.

Best friend is like a pen and we're the paper. We'll not complete without their ink

Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening

Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

It's a complicated relationship, being a good grandparent, because it hinges on a series of other relationships... Because being a grandparent is determined by the relationship your child has with you, partly determined by the one a son or daughter has with his or her spouse, partly determined by the relationship you have with the person your child has chosen to have a child with.

My friendships have a certain symmetry at the moment: Alice is always asking me what she should do, and Nancy is always telling me what I should do.

debe insistirse continuamente en que «femenino» y «masculino» no son entidades en sí mismas; no son figuras arquetípicas de una diferenciación absoluta con campos de aplicación fijos y predeterminados. Son términos de una relación continua, que toman su significado el uno del otro: Por ejemplo, conteniendo y emergiendo, recibiendo y actuado, conservando y dinamizando; la base y su diferenciación, el todo y su parte.

Sometimes old people have really old-fashioned ideas, but that doesn't mean I have to go along with them. I need my grandparents, but in a certain sense they need me too.

Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting.

I speak of the skill of working together, the technique of crossing the arbitrary lines of land, craft, and status, because we must learn more from each other than the simple fact that none of us can stand alone and survive!

No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.