The document discusses how community is important for preventing people from "growing old inside". It quotes Robert McAfee Brown saying the only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people and that community gives companionship and relieves people of feeling indispensable. It also quotes J Robert Oppenheimer saying an open society with free access to knowledge and association of people can create a technological world that is also a human community. It concludes with a Margaret Mead quote about how small groups of committed people can change the world.

1. Andrei Rosca antreprenor, manager bookblog.ro [email_address] twitter.com/AndreiRosca

2. How does one keep from "growing old inside"?

3. … surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable. Robert McAfee Brown

4. … surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable. Robert McAfee Brown 1973

5. The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance — these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community.

6. The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance — these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community. J Robert Oppenheimer, 1960

7. Andrei Rosca twitter.com/AndreiRosca [email_address] http://andreirosca.bookblog.ro

8. “ Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.“ Margaret Mead