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Ideas Quotes by Steven Johnson
- Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders.…
- Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.
- If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.
- We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.
- If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.
- When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.
- What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment…
- What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring…
- The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk;…
- The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get…
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- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
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- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong