Social Network Quotes

I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

When you live away from your family, your friends and faculty become your family.

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

I don't read a lot of books that were published after 1755. One thing about having friends in New York who belong to the literary world, however, is that I have a steady stream of books coming to the house.

When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family - that's your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.

When I married Marjorie, along with her, I got this very large family and a bunch of family friends. It's a dynamic I've never been around. I've always been kind of a loner, and my attempts at domestic life failed miserably. So the family dynamic is a great thing.

I was educated in a private school in England amongst people who had been trained for sort of banking or the Army or business. As I came towards the end of my education, I thought I must find something or I'll never meet any of these people again.

I'm big into my Twitter account.

There are few words in Russian for the Western concept of 'law,' but there are legions of words for connections, helping people from one's neck of the woods.

Everywhere I go I have a lot of friends and family.

I've got a really good family; I've got great friends around me.

I love Instagram and Facebook.

I feel extremely lucky in that I have a very tight-knit group of friends.

I lived in Bologna. I go back quite often, and I still have lots of connections and lots of friends. It was a nice period in my life.

I try to surround myself with a good support system. Whether that's other creators or my family or my friends, or even my viewers, who encourage me just as much as I might encourage them and they're just as much a part of my life as they let me be a part of theirs.

Twitters

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

I'm astonished to say, but people are really pleased to hear what happened to me, the way I got a little bit more confident, the people I've met, and the things I didn't know.

If you're the smartest person you know, it's time to know some new people.

Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.

He who hath many friends hath none.

What would I do now, at age 48, if I were deported to a country that I have not seen in more than 40 years and whose language I no longer speak? How would I work? How would I survive?