Tools Modern Quotes 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Steven Johnson

“Build a tangled bank.”

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Steven Johnson

Nothing really says ... interactivity - which was so exciting and captures the real, the Web Zeitgeist of 1995 - than 'Click here for…

— Steven Johnson

“An innovation, or cluster of innovations, in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether.”

— Steven Johnson