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

- Steven Johnson

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…

- Steven Johnson

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

- Steven Johnson

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

- Steven Johnson

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

- Steven Johnson

Chance favors the connected mind.

- Steven Johnson

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…

- Steven Johnson

We need to play each others instruments.

- Steven Johnson

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