Quotes by : Steven Johnson

Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network....

Every genuinely new technology has a genuinely new way of breaking – and every now and then, those....

Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a....

Chance favors the connected mind.

A world without glass would strike at the foundation of modern progress: the extended lifespans that....

What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries....

The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?

Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations.....

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.