Quotes by Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

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Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year t — Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; — Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness — Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It too — Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore. — Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
…it is the public sector I find more interesting, because governments and other non-market institutions have long suffer — Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a — Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Chance favors the connected mind. — Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings. — Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by cr — Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture — Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to — Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives. — Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water. — Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Build a tangled bank. — Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation