I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.
We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.
Sean Parker: Drop the "The." Just "Facebook." It's cleaner
Eduardo Saverin: Don't fish eat other fish? The marlins and the trout!
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
Social media inflames our already inflated view of self.
Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with those people--and that music does not have a better reputation...For I assure you, without travel, at leas...
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This i...
Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?
When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying tha...
[T]he downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either s...
I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the age of the Earth, for I don't believe that we come anywhere near comprehending the mind of God or the workings of the universe...
As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; they’re just, well, social people.
Importantly, companies are using social media to do things that go way beyond just chatting up existing customers on Facebook. Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and sup...
Social systems are neither a consumer product that we can buy or rent from the market nor a material that we can import from another country. It is not a creation of the almighty gifted from the heavens. A social system is a creation of mankind. That...
It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
