In proportion as labor is divided, arts are perfected.

The hand or foot, when separated from the body, retains indeed its name, but totally changes its nature, because it is completely divested of its uses and of its powers.

The whole is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the totality is something besides the parts.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing.

That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee. - Book VI, 54.

That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees.

Walking into the crowd was like sinking into a stew - you became an ingredient, you took on a certain flavour.

We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

When we agree to (or get tricked into) being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved. When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.