Chance favors the connected mind..

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memorie….

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple invento….

One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe notic….

What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an envir….

Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore..

Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about de….

Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinki….

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 front….

As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation..

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 mad….

We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them..

The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; writ….

Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, in the dense network….

Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas..

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

Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. Th….

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get….

The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design..

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives..

The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present ca….