Network Structure Quotes

The internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes.

I'm a realist about how the networks work.

The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.

The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.

Just like the brain consists of billions of highly connected neurons, a basic operating unit in a neural network is a neuron-like node. It takes input from other nodes and sends output to others.

The Internet...is a series of tubes.

The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.

Just because we say networks are important doesn't mean that networks explain everything. We're just adding additional information. Networks don't work like a match - they work like a magnifying glass.

The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don't necessarily know but share your interests.

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.

By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.

One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks.

The idea of the Internet as sort of open and democratic and free and with no hierarchy, the libertarian beginnings as it were, with peer-to-peer networks... I'd sort of like for everyone to just admit that we're beyond that now.

Every production network has spatiality - the particular geographical configuration and extent of its component elements and the links between them.

Anonymous is like an amoeba: it's got too many different operations run by truly different people which might not share a single person with another operation, but they use the same branding - they are part of the Anonymous brand, just like al-Qaida.

We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out together. We have a very specific pattern of ties, and they have a particular shape and structure that is encoded in our genes. It means that human beings have evolved to live their lives embedded in social networks.

Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

We never saw Google+ Circles or Facebook Lists as reflective of the way our friendships play out.