Background Image
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. they want to complete each other as much as they want to compete
-Steven Johnson
Please Wait....
Translating....

Good Ideas May Not Want To Be

Steven Johnson
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. they want to complete each other as much as they want to compete
Views: 13817
Cite this Page
Prevent plagiarism by providing proper attribution.
APA FORMAT
Embed this Quote
Copy this HTML code to embed the quote on your website or blog.
HTML CODE
Topic
Ideas Borders May

More From Steven Johnson

You know i think so many of us live outside our bodies. my dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with each other, to connect with the poor, to connect with the broken, to connect with the needy, to connect with people calling out all around us, to connect with the beauty, poetry, the wildness.
Dream Home Thinking
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
Husband Home Son
The book can't compete with the screen. it couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. it couldn't compete with the television screen and it can't compete with the computer screen i don't think. and now we have all those screens so against all those screens i think the book can't measure up.
Book Thinking Television
If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. don't trust your memory. then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your journal, the ideas that changed your life, the ideas that saved your marriage, the ideas that bailed you out of bankruptcy, the ideas that helped you become successful, the ideas that made you millions. what a good review-going back over the collection of ideas that you gathered over the years. so be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future.
Motivational Memories Writing
The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. the second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. the third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.
Real Simple Views
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. and these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. we have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. ideas do not rule the world. but it is because the world has ideas (and because it constantly produces them) that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.
Struggle Book Thinking
Similar Quotes
I am very happy here [on cuba], but i feel i have work to do in the united states. it's where i can identify with the total world struggle for socialism. but i think as a north american, as a black north american, i have certain understandings - certain contributions - to make that are unique to the north amerian experience.
Struggle Thinking Unique
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
Lying Struggle Down And
Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. i disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.
Art Struggle Making Money
In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is literally, the force of gravity. i am gravity, i am that against which the rocket must struggle, to which prehistoric wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of history.
Real Struggle Style

Trending Author

William S. Paley
William S. Paley
Liam Neeson
Liam Neeson
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
Jimmy Dean
Jimmy Dean
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
Category
Information
Inspirational
Philosophy
Personal Growth
Happiness & Joy
Life Lessons
Success & Business
Motivation