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

- 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

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

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

- Steven Johnson

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

- Steven Johnson

We need to play each others instruments.

- Steven Johnson

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…

- Steven Johnson

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

- 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