Quotes by : Steven Johnson

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its....

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

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts.....

…it is the public sector I find more interesting, because governments and other non-market institutions....

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

That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological....

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

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

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