The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design. — Steven Johnson Art Copy Share Image
We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them. — Steven Johnson Connecting Copy Share Image
That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface. — Steven Johnson Design Copy Share Image
Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore. — Steven Johnson Being wrong Copy Share Image
Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water. — Steven Johnson Evolution Copy Share Image
“What made Bell Labs fundamentally different had as much to do with antitrust law as the geniuses it attracted.” — Steven Johnson Antitrust Copy Share Image
Nothing really says ... interactivity - which was so exciting and captures the real, the Web Zeitgeist of 1995 - than 'Click… — Steven Johnson Capture Copy Share Image
Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas. — Steven Johnson Come up Copy Share Image
“It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life… — Steven Johnson Interconnectedness Copy Share Image
“Telephone switchboards became one of the first inroads for women into the “professional” classes.” — Steven Johnson Feminism Copy Share Image
When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive. — Steven Johnson Ideas Copy Share Image
The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of… — Steven Johnson Edges Copy Share Image
“The wetland created by the beaver, like the thriving platform created by the Twitter founders, invites variation because it is an open… — Steven Johnson Twitter Copy Share Image
This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself… — Steven Johnson Connected Copy Share Image
“Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten… — Steven Johnson History Copy Share Image
One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively… — Steven Johnson 19th century Copy Share Image
“Radios, vacuum tubes, transistors, televisions, solar cells, coaxial cables, laser beams, microprocessors, computers, cell phones, fiber optics—all these essential tools of modern… — Steven Johnson Cell phone Copy Share Image
Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate… — Steven Johnson Analysis Copy Share Image
“Before tube amplifiers, the limits of our vocal chords made it difficult to speak to more than a thousand people at a… — Steven Johnson Time Copy Share Image
How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so… — Steven Johnson Deserve Copy Share Image
Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking… — Steven Johnson Change Copy Share Image
“Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate… — Steven Johnson Books Copy Share Image
The economics of television syndication and DVD sales mean that there's a tremendous financial pressure to make programs that can be watched… — Steven Johnson Aliases Copy Share Image
“2Do not mistake these multiple trends--the energy flows of metropolitan growth, the new taste for tea, the nascent, half-formed awareness of mass… — Steven Johnson Cause and effect Copy Share Image
“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… — Steven Johnson Crowd Copy Share Image
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in… — Steven Johnson Age Copy Share Image
One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden… — Steven Johnson Book Copy Share Image
“…it is the public sector I find more interesting, because governments and other non-market institutions have long suffered from the innovation malaise… — Steven Johnson Good ideas Copy Share Image
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of… — Steven Johnson Education Copy Share Image
“when one looks at innovation in nature and in culture, environments that build walls around good ideas tend to be less innovative… — Steven Johnson Good ideas Copy Share Image
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can… — Steven Johnson Creating Copy Share Image
“Edison invented the lightbulb the way Steve Jobs invented the MP3 player: he wasn’t the first, but he was the first to… — Steven Johnson Edison Copy Share Image
The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick… — Steven Johnson Bigs Copy Share Image
If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is… — Steven Johnson Defined Copy Share Image
“An innovation, or cluster of innovations, in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether.” — Steven Johnson Innovation Copy Share Image
“An absence of information is not the same as information about an absence.” We’re blind to our blindness.” — Steven Johnson Absence Copy Share Image
