"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."

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Source : "How Do Our Social Networks Affect Our Health?". 'TED Radio Hour' with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

Nicholas A. Christakis

#Technology Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Social Network Quotes

“We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.”
“Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader.”
“For a long time I've walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people's lives because I know that there is a way in which I am the same as so many of the strangers that I see.”
“The bisy larke, messager of day.”
“You may believe you're an excellent rider," he called, "but there are a score of Temujai back there who actually are.”
“I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues.”

Source : "SENSE8: Daryl Hannah Reflects on Performing in the Wachowskis’ Latest Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2015.
“I think a goal is a goal and not all my goals are pretty.”
“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.”

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