“It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.” IfsWayReasonWholeOur LivesCuttingGoodnessFundamentalsGood ThingsSpreadConnectedViolentTiesGerms Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.” IfsWayReasonCareSocialRolesOur LivesUnderstoodAdvantageFundamentalsOur SocietySocial Network Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.” ThinkingWayGrowsParentGrowing UpYouthIll Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think about the inevitable genetic revolution in medicine that is going to allow us to advertently change our genes over centuries and even decades.” ThinkingWayHumansMayHas BeensRealizingCenturyRevolutionMedicineDecadesInevitableGenes Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
