Quotes About Connection

And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator.

See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.

Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as [love] can do with a single thread.

The eyes are the harbingers of love, and the first step of love is sight.

I light my candle from their torches.

[W]hen I hear or read a good line I can hardly wait to tell it to somebody else...

Love will find a lay.

One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

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.

Programming is a social activity.

One of these days, one of these years, the tree will fall, and when it does, if I am still alive, I will fall with it.

Building trust requires talking and thinking about trust.

When we say that trust is an emotional skill, this implies that emotional competence is a necessary part of trust.

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

Without awareness of common pitfalls such as confirmation bias, positive-outcome bias, and subjective validation, a person trained in logic and fallacy detection is easily deceived into thinking that he or she has acquired invincible armor against assaults of unreason. Expressions like post hoc ergo propter hoc and false cause, should be informed by knowledge of evolution and how the brain works to jump to conclusions about causal connections.

Little boy crying. "My daddy has been dead for 10 yrs, but he came to town to vote for Lyndon Johnson, and didn't come to see me.

Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.

Turk had family in Austin, Texas. But they hadn't heard from him lately and wouldn't expect to.

In the greenhouse at this nursery where I work, there are paths between the plants and the seedling tables. That's so you can get from one place to another. Also so you can work on the plants without stepping on them. Those paths all connect with one another. You can go this way or you can go that. It all has the same beginning and the same ending. Though you can only ever stand in one place at once.

So," I said, "does this make us water-brothers?" Wun Ngo Wen looked puzzled. Jason laughed out loud.

And don't you dare say you love me, because I know that's not true. You don't know the difference between being in love and conducting yourself like you're in love. It's nice you picked me, but it could have been anybody, and believe me, Tyler, it would have been just as disappointing, one way or another.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.