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> [When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-johnson/when-you-don-t-have-to-ask-for-permission-innovation-thrives/)

[Steven Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-johnson/)

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## More by Steven Johnson

> [Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking about change…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-johnson/most-new-movements-start-this-way-hundreds-or-thousands-of/)

[Steven Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-johnson/)

> [“Edison invented the lightbulb the way Steve Jobs invented the MP3 player: he wasn’t the first, but he was the first to make something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-johnson/edison-invented-the-lightbulb-the-way-steve-jobs-invented-the-mp3/)

[Steven Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-johnson/)

> [“Early risers strolling along the Thames would see the toshers wading through the muck of low tide, dressed almost comically in flowing velveteen coats,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-johnson/early-risers-strolling-along-the-thames-would-see-the-toshers-wading/)

[Steven Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-johnson/)

> [“Build a tangled bank.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-johnson/build-a-tangled-bank/)

[Steven Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-johnson/)

> [If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-johnson/if-we-didn-t-have-genetic-mutations-we-wouldn-t-have-us-you-need/)

[Steven Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-johnson/)

> [The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-johnson/the-problem-is-there-are-definitely-some-genuinely-lame-things-on/)

[Steven Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-johnson/)

> [Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-johnson/organizations-that-empower-folks-further-down-the-chain-or-try-to-get/)

[Steven Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-johnson/)

> [“The birth of the civil rights movement was intimately bound up in the spread of jazz music throughout the United States. It was, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-johnson/the-birth-of-the-civil-rights-movement-was-intimately-bound-up-in-the/)

[Steven Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-johnson/)

> [Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-johnson/popular-culture-on-average-has-been-growing-more-cognitively/)

[Steven Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-johnson/)

> [“From am overall eclsyste,s perspective, if you're going to have 10million human beings trying to share an environment with other life-forms, it's much better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-johnson/from-am-overall-eclsyste-s-perspective-if-you-re-going-to-have/)

[Steven Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-johnson/)

> [Nothing really says ... interactivity - which was so exciting and captures the real, the Web Zeitgeist of 1995 - than 'Click here for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-johnson/nothing-really-says-interactivity-which-was-so-exciting-and-captures/)

[Steven Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-johnson/)

> [“An innovation, or cluster of innovations, in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-johnson/an-innovation-or-cluster-of-innovations-in-one-field-ends-up/)

[Steven Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-johnson/)

> [Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-johnson/every-childhood-has-its-talismans-the-sacred-objects-that-look/)

[Steven Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-johnson/)

> [I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-johnson/i-suspect-millions-of-people-from-my-generation-probably-have/)

[Steven Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-johnson/)

> [“It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-johnson/it-is-a-great-testimony-to-the-connectedness-of-life-on-earth-that/)

[Steven Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-johnson/)

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