Joseph Cannon Quotes

A communication highway without content is inconceivable.

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

You can never have too many friends.

For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.

By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

Technology is best when it brings people together.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else

There were times after the accident when I felt very lonely - burns survivors can feel terrible isolation. I wanted to create something that connects us all together, so that was the idea behind the Katie Piper Foundation.

Many of the things we looked to solve initially were services like Internet and desk space. Then we got into the game of connecting people.

The Internet wasn't useful until some basic infrastructure was built.

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.

Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.

Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at launch of the National Millennium Trails Program, 1999)

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship

The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question all things and made 'knowledge and understanding' the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings.

Soul grows in communion. Word by word, story by story, for better or worse, we build our world. From true conversation - speaking and listening - communication deepens into compassion and creates community.

Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a family, a community, a country, a society, a culture.

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.

Because we're comics and we pass each other on campus, we know of each other, and a lot of the time there's a mutual respect there.