Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History Of Innovation Quotes
Chance favors the connected mind.
Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.
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.
When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.
Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.
Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.
Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years.
