"Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other……" — Steven Johnson
"Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water."
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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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Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent…
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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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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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