Quotes by : Steven Johnson

We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether....

Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics....

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

Chance favors the connected mind.

...if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl....

Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent....

It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president....

The time travelers are usually adapt at "intercrossing" different fields of expertise. That's the beauty....

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking....

Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable....