Steven Johnson Quotes

Steven Johnson
American Author
Born: Jun 6, 1968
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If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible. Steven Johnson
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It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then. Steven Johnson
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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
Knowledge Innovations Telephone Battery Parallel Steam Inventors Calculus Another Were Hit Working Engine Electrical Radio Multiple
Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem. Steven Johnson
Problem Try Decision Big Down Adaptive Local Minds Local Level Further Folks More Allow Involved Empower Because Making End Up Get Being Happen Decision-Making Organizations Rid Chain Chains Level Resilient
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation. Steven Johnson
Eyes Innovation Sometimes Isolation Our Remarkable Continue Roll Much Engines Serve Universities
The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger. Steven Johnson
Problem Sense Definitely Television Some More Bottom Because Genuinely Gotten Bigger Lame Barrel Things
I have problems with the violence and the torture on '24.' What I'm trying to say is that that's not the only story, and I think that the cognitive complexity is as important. Steven Johnson
Problems Important Think Say Complexity Torture Only Trying Story Cognitive Violence
I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history. Steven Johnson
History Sports Generation People Diplomacy Strategy Tell Kind My Generation Onto Like Geopolitical Chess Dungeons Suspect Stories Then Games Comparable Actual Millions Millions Of People Dragons
I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life. Steven Johnson
Life Love Internet My Life Meetings Those Pretty Writer Doing Been Just Where Much Eliminate
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. Steven Johnson
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If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative. Steven Johnson
You Innovation Live Innovative Defined System Remarkably Tends Ideas Look Commercial Where Product University

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