With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

Because, ultimately, we can't just think of algorithms in isolation. We have to think of the failings of the people who design them - and the danger to those they are supposedly designed to serve.

I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.

Receiving the National Medal of Science is the thrill of a lifetime, but good science does not happen in isolation.

Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

When I was a toddler, I fell ill with diphtheritic croup and was taken to an isolation unit. One of my earliest memories is of being on my own in a tent surrounded by steaming kettles.

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

The 'Burials' title really speaks to all the different levels that are on the record. It speaks to silence and panic and anxiety and loss of self and isolation and those different levels of hiding.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

You cannot judge the performance of an actor in isolation. A performance becomes good because of so many factors, including the other actors.

When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

At a macro level, it's balancing the needs of consumers, advertisers and content owners. And if you talk to any one of those three customer sets in isolation, often times you won't delight the other two. So the hurdle we faced with Hulu Plus was, how can we thread this needle in a way that delights all three customer sets?

Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its lack of sporting prowess.

During isolation, one can bring a different approach to the creative process.

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.