"Good ideas may not want to be free,……" — 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. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete"
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41 Quotes by Steven Johnson
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The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.
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That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.
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Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they…
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Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.
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When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.
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How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they…
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Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by…
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Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your…
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Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations,…
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One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of…
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We need to play each others instruments.
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Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with…
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More Borders Quotes
This quote is filed under Borders Quotes,
one of 722 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
— Margaret Atwood
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In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in…
— Joe Baca
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I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.
— Tyra Banks
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It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that…
— William Bartram
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When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
— Frederic Bastiat
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
— Walter Benjamin
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We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law…
— Michael Bloomberg
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House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs,…
— John Boehner
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This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and…
— John Boehner
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If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
— Tony Abbott
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Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the…
— John O. Brennan
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A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to…
— Jan Brewer
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