Danah Quotes

#1. Teens' use of social media is significantly shaped by race and class, geography and cultural background [boyd, danah , "An Old Fogey's Analysis of a Teenager's View on Social Media," Medium, January 12, 2015].

Danah Boyd

#2. IF THE GREAT ANDROMEDA GALAXY had to depend on you to hold it up, where would it be now but fallen way to hell?

Saul Bellow

#3. Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last

Gregory Maguire

#4. In 1980, a young Senator Al Gore held the first Congressional hearings on global warming.

Eric Schneiderman

#5. Fighting is a sport if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.

Mike Tyson

#6. During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.

Sharon Kay Penman

#7. The proliferation of new music groups and individual performers focusing on new music today is heartening. On the one hand the culture is very resistant to new things, and yet it continues to change and grow.

Michael Hersch

#8. Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.

Danah Boyd

#9. Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context.

Danah Boyd

#10. The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.

Danah Boyd

#11. Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.

Kathi Appelt

#12. Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

Danah Boyd

#13. [I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.

Danah Zohar

#14. Rather than focusing on coarse generational categories, it makes more sense to focus on the skills and knowledge that are necessary to make sense of a mediated world. Both youth and adults have a lot to learn.

Danah Boyd

#15. We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.

Danah Boyd

#16. Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

Chris Christie

#17. Most teens aren't addicted to social media; if anything, they're addicted to each other.

Danah Boyd

#18. Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don't think it's possible to design one system that incorporates all social norms for networking. Human beings are just too diverse.

Danah Boyd

#19. Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks.

Danah Boyd

#20. Listening to teens talk about social media addiction reveals an interest not in features of their computers, smartphones, or even particular social media sites but in each other.

Danah Boyd

#21. The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.

Danah Boyd

#22. Long before the internet, critical media literacy has never been considered essential in schools or communities. Instead,

Danah Boyd

#23. Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.

Danah Boyd

#24. I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

Paul Shaffer

#25. LinkedIn is very good for browsing relationships and hooking into your contacts' networks. It re-connected me with high-level execs I hadn't talked to for some time, who then helped me close various deals.

Danah Boyd

#26. I want to support the view that the foundation of reality itself is a unified, indeterminate maze of possibilities.

Danah Zohar

#27. Community, Identity, Stability." Grand words. "If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved.

Aldous Huxley

#28. Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.

Sue Townsend

#29. Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins to shine forth, and we are introduced to the mysteries of the deep, the call of the within, the infinite radiance of a splendor that time and space forgot

Ken Wilber

#30. If a self-organizing system becomes too static, it runs down; if it becomes too chaotic, it breaks apart.

Danah Zohar

#31. Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

Danah Boyd

#32. Teens are desperate to have access to and make sense of public life; understanding the technologies that enable publics is just par for the course.

Danah Boyd

#33. In sport, part of the game is accepting the umpire's call, no matter how hard that might be. Sometimes the calls go your way, and sometimes they don't.

Dot Richardson

#34. For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.

Danah Boyd

#35. I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world's gonna be AOK.

Danah Boyd

#36. There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology,

Danah Boyd

#37. What happens online is you are constantly dealing with invisible audiences.

Danah Boyd

#38. In a world where information is easily available, strong personal networks and access to helpful people often matter more than access to the information itself.30

Danah Boyd

#39. If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

Terry Brooks

#40. Incantations for Muggles:
The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life

Danah Boyd