Callon, Michel

"The weak have their own forms of power through networks and alliances."

"Ordering is a verb, not a noun; it is something that is continuously done."

"We must learn to think beyond the human-centered perspective."

"Materiality matters; objects are not merely passive carriers of meaning."

"The construction of facts is a collective enterprise involving humans and non-humans alike."

"Devices and mechanisms can embody and enforce particular forms of order."

"We are all bound together in webs of mutual dependence and obligation."

"Silence and invisibility are strategic positions in networks of power."

"The production of knowledge is deeply political and laden with consequences."

"Flexibility and rigidity are not opposites but complementary properties."

"We must attend to the multiple ways in which reality is enacted and performed."

"Distance is not a natural given but something that must be continually maintained."

"The economy is shot through with moral and ethical dimensions."

"We are all implicated in the networks that we study."

"Coordination requires constant work and negotiation among heterogeneous elements."

"The future is not given but emerges through our actions in the present."

"We must learn to appreciate the complexity and subtlety of everyday practices."

"Objects and subjects are mutually constituted through their interactions."

"Agency is distributed across networks, not concentrated in individual actors."

"The construction of universal standards always involves local negotiations."

"We are all ambassadors of the networks we inhabit."

"Failure is not the opposite of success but an integral part of the process."

"The social and the technical are thoroughly intertwined."

"We must resist the illusion of transparency in knowledge claims."

"Innovation emerges through the reconfiguration of existing networks and relations."

"The economy is not a separate domain but woven into the fabric of society."

"We are all negotiators in the ongoing construction of reality."

"Meaning and materiality are inseparable aspects of technical systems."

"The work of science is the work of assembling and maintaining networks."

"We must attend to the politics of measurement and quantification."