Eli Pariser Quotes

I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.

We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

Country [China] needs to continue opening up and keep connecting. It needs to realize that the world has become one. The old concept of isolation, the idea that you can solve your problems on your own does not work anymore - neither in cultural, economic, nor political terms.

What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

When once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining to do so, I was relieved, in a great measure, from those embarrassments and depressions which I see afflicting many an author who waits for a mood instead of summoning it, and is the sport, instead of the master, of his own impressions and ideas.

If I've tried to bring anything to federal politics, it's the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

Today with technological advancement, with the Internet, with planes, with the rate at which we travel - even if you wanted, you cannot hide from the rest of the world. And whether you like it or not, you are part of this global marketplace, and so you might as well understand it, you might as well embrace it, because even if you hide, it will find you.

There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via Facebook and Internet, you're actually quite literally connected by your neurons.

Wait to start a startup until you come up with an idea that you feel compelled to explore.

I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again.

I pay attention to what's going on around me. I'm always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do that I think it's easier to come up with fresh ideas. It's not that my career has been based on surprising people, but it's been about challenging myself - to constantly do new things that are going to broaden my own mind and in the process, hopefully, connect with other people.

We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.

I think a dream is just a suggestion to start something out, do something.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and a profound mystery. A thought was not there, then it is. An image, a story, an idea about what it is to be human, did not exist, then it does. With every new poem, an emotion new to the heart, to the world, speaks itself into being.

Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.