“Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There's a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.” FeelsTryingHelpingSocialModelsConnectionsBoredAccurateNew RelationshipGraphs Author:Sean Parker
“General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly generalized constructions of pure mathematics and the specific theories of the specialized disciplines. Mathematics attempts to organize highly general relationships into a coherent system, a system however which does not have any necessary connections with the "real" world around us. It studies all thinkable relationships abstracted from any concrete situation or body of empirical knowledge.” WorldDoeRealUseBodyLyingNamesLevelsSituationStudyBuildingTheoryDisciplinePureModelsConnectionsMathematicsReal WorldConstructionConcreteOrganizeTheoreticalThinkableSystems Theory Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“A big factor is that the enthusiast camp's values are really rooted in Silicon Valley and in these supposedly new business models. But again, I think this such an interesting moment because things like the NSA revelations are really forcing people to recognize the connections between corporate and government surveillance.” PeopleThinkingMomentsBigsGovernmentValuesInterestingModelsConnectionsFactorsCorporateRevelationsCampsValleysRootedSurveillanceNsaSiliconSilicon ValleyBusiness ModelsNew BusinessGovernment Surveillance Author:Astra Taylor
“It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.” WritingDoneSeemsCenturyModelsConnectionsNineteenth CenturyBeing Done Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire best director category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make.” IfsWould BeAttentionDirectorsModelsConnectionsAttractiveCategoriesAttractive Woman Author:Diablo Cody
“I find it so important now to be a role model and a figure. And I know that may sound strange to some people, but most important is my connection with my fans and the connection that they breed with one another.” PeopleKnowsMayImportantSoundRolesFansFiguresStrangeModelsConnectionsRole Models Author:Lady Gaga
“Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work. Art is a conversation, not a patent office. The citation of sources belongs to the realms of journalism and scholarship, not art. Reality can’t be copyrighted.” WayHas BeensArtRealityValuesWealthEconomicSourceConversationOfficeModelsArt IsBuiltConnectionsBasesMarkJournalismRealmsCopiesLinksRegimesDisplayRecallsScholarshipTransfersEditsPatentsEconomic ModelsCitations Author:David Shields