Community Quotes

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.

If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing.

If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and whoever captures it does, and whoever doesn’t, doesn’t, and just keeps walking. It is very sterile, and it can seem even inaccessible and boring for a community.

The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.

So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.

We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.

When you’re buying a pair of TOMS, if you don’t feel like you’re part of a community, then I’ve failed.

In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.

The best way to protect both the policemen and the community going forward is by creating a system that’s just, where everyone feels safe.

There’s sort of a theory that’s going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.