John Guare Quotes

In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries.

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

Social networking inspires me a lot and how we are related and connected to each other.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

We face a world where borders matter less and less.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

For weal or for woe, the peoples of mankind are knit together far closer than ever before..

In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe.

The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.

Everything's interconnected. That's the way life is.

There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world... because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more... connected to the seven billion other people.

As the world gets smaller and communication spreads further and further out there, you try to find the right balance.

We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few.

And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.

Anyone whose mission is keeping people apart is swimming against a very strong tide.

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.

I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people "participate.