“I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.” Quote by 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
“It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.” SpeakDyingPolicyHarderMedicinePopulationVulnerableFashionablePublic Policy Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.” HumansSocialAbilityViolenceMediaHavensChangedInternetCapacityFundamentalsSocial MediaAttributesInteractionPropensitySocial Interaction Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.” UsedCultureImagineConversationUsed To BeGenesGenetics 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
“It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.” WellsLooksWealthDependsStructurePopulationSurroundHealth Wealth Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.” Has BeensDyingAging Author:Erin McKean
“A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.” WellsKindLittlesCharacterTogetherFansHorrorOutsidersCollectorsSyndromesRetardedMain CharactersRallyingHorror Fans Author:Kirk Hammett