Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline…

I think there's confusion around what the point of social networks is. A lot of different companies characterized as social networks have different goals…

— Mark Zuckerberg

Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.

— Naval Ravikant

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue…

— Sonia Sotomayor

For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.

— danah boyd

When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they can reach…

— Scott McNealy

Global traffic has become very networked, very connected.

— Dennis Muilenburg

“When a printed book—whether a recently published scholarly history or a two-hundred-year-old Victorian novel—is transferred to an electronic device connected to the Internet, it…

— Nicholas Carr

“first networked polity. ‘In no country in the world,’ declared Tocqueville, ‘has the principle of association been more successfully used or applied to a…

— Niall Ferguson

“It is as if, in response to the creation of digital networks, we are changing our behaviour to become not just networked individuals but…

— Paul Mason

As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially…

— Clive Thompson

“Of course, no individual can ever be shopping, gaming, working, blogging, downloading, or texting 24/7. However, since no moment, place, or situation now exists…

— Jonathan Crary

The reality is if you take any three people and look at their cellphones or blackberries and facebook pages, you can get to almost…

— Van Jones

“3.5 billion networked products by 2015. Compare that to 1.7 billion networked PCs and it’s clear that the “Internet of Things” has arrived.”

— Robert Scoble

Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.

— Michael Nielsen

Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for…

— David Weinberger