Nicholas A. Christakis Quotes

By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other.

Humankind is getting more and more connected.

In my experience, in this industry, the things that have been breakthrough have all been about connecting human beings to each other, communicating with each other.

There is not a single one of us with a job that is not completely reliant in some way shape or form on others.

Isolation is no longer possible or desirable.

Connecting the dots is connecting people.

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect—to help people work together—and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.

We don't live in isolation. Most people don't like working in isolation - some do, but they typically don't end up playing Major League Baseball.

I'm gonna find creative ways to connect with people that actually matter and exist. That's kinda like my goal, like, how can we creatively do things in a different way so that we can actually get people and talk to them?

No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind

Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.

There's this tendency to think of the individual and the collective are somehow at odds or separate. But I think that's really false. We're all both. And when the individual suffers, the collective suffers, and vice versa.

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

The world has gotten so interwoven.

And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.

Everybody is someone else's instrument.

We have to move from our devotion to independence, through an understanding of interdependence

My comfort zone has always been in an ensemble-type atmosphere.

Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

Comedy can't be done in a vacuum, and you can't do it on your own. So if you have a community of people, it's a great symbiotic relationship.

The shape and solutions of the future rely totally on the collective effort of people working together. We are all an integral part of the web of life.

I'm such a team player, and I love being in a group setting. You're used to looking to your left and right and someone being there. When you're out there on your own, you're like, 'Oh, boy.'

There is so much energy when you work with other people. I'm working with friends and having a blast.

If you've got 15 actors on stage who are all trying to shine a light on themselves, they are all trying to outshine each other. Whereas if you have 14 of those actors trying to shine a light on one person, and each of them is trying to make the other look good, you have a much more interesting process.

Thatcher was wrong. People don't exist - well, they don't flourish - as individuals. Life's about swapping ideas and communicating with other people.