List of Steven Johnson Quotes

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Steven Johnson
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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.
Sports Dragons Games
Nothing really says ... interactivity - which was so exciting and captures the real, the web zeitgeist of 1995 - than 'click here for a picture of my dog.'
Dog Real Internet
When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.
Ideas People Meetings
Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.
Water May Impossible
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.
Internet Meetings Havens
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.
Achievement Flying President
Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.
Criticism Analysis Culture
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.
Bottom Of The Barrel Lame Television
The economics of television syndication and dvd sales mean that there's a tremendous financial pressure to make programs that can be watched multiple times, revealing new nuances and shadings on the third viewing. meanwhile, the web has created a forum for annotation and commentary that allows more complicated shows to prosper, thanks to the fan sites where each episode of shows like 'lost' or 'alias' is dissected with an intensity usually reserved for talmud scholars.
Mean Dvds Fans
It may not be possible to 'win the future,' in president obama's words, but if we're going to encourage more innovation, it's not enough for us to just dig in and work harder. we also need to encourage surprise and serendipity. we need to play each other's instruments.
Hard Work Winning Play
How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? how could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? these questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.
Intelligent Errors Discipline
Legendary innovators like franklin, snow, and darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. they have a lot of hobbies.
Snow Intellectual Curiosity
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