Steven Johnson Quotes
Top 47 wise famous quotes and sayings by Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Two key preconditions become clear. First, the sheer size of the network: you can't have an epiphany with only three neurons firing.
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.
Up to now, the philosophers of emergence have struggled to interpret the world. But they are now starting to change it.
If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.
Innovation scholar Richard Ogle calls an "idea-space": a complex of tools, beliefs, metaphors, and objects of study.
An absence of information is not the same as information about an absence. We're blind to our blindness.
The glassmakers had brought a new source of wealth to Venice, but they had also brought the less appealing habit of burning down the neighborhood.
In other words, a serious crisis of nonrenewable energy resources is likely to accelerate the urbanization trend, not derail it.
IDEAS TRICKLE OUT OF SCIENCE, into the flow of commerce, where they drift into the less predictable eddies of art and philosophy.
If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.
The march of technology expands the space of possibility around us, but how we explore that space is up to us.
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 more parts on the table.
The lightbulb was the kind of innovation that comes together over decades, in pieces. There was no lightbulb moment in the story of the lightbulb.
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.
The first transatlantic line that enabled ordinary citizens to call between North America and Europe was laid only in 1956.
Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.
Most discoveries become imaginable at a very specific moment in history, after which point multiple people start to imagine them.
To a certain extent, Ruef's and Burt's research is a validation of the celebrated "strength of weak ties" argument first proposed by Mark Granovetter,
Superstition, then and now, is not just a threat to the truth. It's also a threat to national security.
What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The data is in on that.
In the long run, the map was a triumph of marketing as much as empirical science. It helped a good idea find a wide audience.
Today. By the end of 1882, Edison's company is powering electric light for the entire Pearl Street district in Lower Manhattan.
Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory,
That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them.
If your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale's head for an afternoon.