"What you end up seeing when you look……" — Steven Johnson
"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 those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else."
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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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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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