Community-Driven Quotes

Politics didn't lead me to working people. Working people led me into politics.

My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?

This party [the Progressive Party] comes from the grass roots. It has grown from the soil of the people's hard necessities.

For me, open source is a moral thing.

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

The migration to more of a developer-powered economy is actually truer to our vision, which is a platform for user-generated content driven by our community.

When you come to Roblox, the player participates in things that are created by the community. You can hang out in a restaurant and try to survive a tornado. All of this is created by our creative community.

We've always been about empowering people who feel like us and come from the communities that we come from and want to believe in our mission.

I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

The SCMP, in short, reveals the renewed spirit of Hong Kong driven by my government - connect and excel - and in its passionate commitment to the community.

Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless.

Follow those who follow something bigger than themselves - an idea, a belief, a vision, a cause. Run away from those who say we need to follow them.

In tech communities, we consider disruption the way to lead to innovation.

The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.

Education needs to be personalized and flexible, which means education policy needs to originate from our local communities and not from some bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.

I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.

We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.

When I see Kickstarter, I don't see a company. Instead, I see a social movement. I see people doing things for people.

'Rocky Horror' is not a movie - it's a movement. It is a made by the fans, and it is what it is because of what the fans have done.

Open-source is a means of production.