To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.
If the only hammer you are given is the Internet, it's not surprising that every possible social and political problem is presented as an online nail.
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.
But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration.
Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that.
If you look at the evolution of games from console to Internet to mobile, and look at social networking from Web to mobile, everything is fragmenting.
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
I feel like there's a lot of noise in the social space. The Vines and Instagrams of the world are gaining traction, and their solutions are perfect for their communities.
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
'Prom' is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers' lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all their struggles and the social pressures that prom creates on their lives.
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.
Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you.
Now most of 'Alice' isn't really a political social commentary, but I think a big message is here is that the culture we're involved in is fascinated with very quick fixes and instant gratification.
I think many of the companies that have tried to create social worlds have failed because they approached it strictly from an opportunistic perspective.
