Quotes by : Steven Johnson

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

Build a tangled bank.

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....

...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....

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

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