Sorting through what social conventions we ought to adopt…

We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that it is…

— Vint Cerf

Internet and government is Topic A in every nation, all around the world. There is the question of getting the Internet built. That involves…

— Vint Cerf

Remember, 'governance' is a big word that includes human rights, freedom of speech, economic transactions on a worldwide basis - it touches everything. It's…

— Vint Cerf

Before you judge me as some kind of 'anything goes' language heathen, let me just say that I'm not against usage standards. I don't…

— Arika Okrent

“Are the values we hold dear and guide our lives by just social conventions, like driving on the right-hand versus left-hand side of the…

— William Lane Craig

To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered them nonetheless,…

— Howard Adelman

“My father had a healthy disregard for social conventions: he once let me paint the house windows in rainbows with my watercolor set, to…

— Jennifer Dubois

“...for although we may fully respect our social conventions...it may unfortunately happen that , through the perversity of others we encounter only the thorns…

— Marquis deSade

“As long as we measure a person's psychological health by the degree to which he or she accepts social conventions, we will fail to…

— Arno Gruen

There were very strict social conventions, and you adhered to it, and I think it gave you a lot of character. When a man…

— Jack Kirby

I like playing the social convention. If you're in a period drama, there's always something dancing underneath the surface as a human - but…

— Jenna Coleman

Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my…

— Alan Sokal

The domestic policy of any president, U.S. or otherwise, is his or her own concern, as long as democratic norms are followed.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Norms and limits matter. Voters like outside-the-box thinking and innovation, but they like reliability and expertise more.

— Jessica Tarlov

“Every great philosopher, in their own way, questioned the fundamental assumptions that were present in the thinking of their time”

— Steven West