Steven Johnson Quotes

Steven Johnson — American Author born on June 06, 1968,

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What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions are somehow made collectively. The control of the system is in the hands of everyone who is a part of it.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

Steven Johnson Quotes

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