"The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table."

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Source : Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.32, Penguin

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“Revenge isn't always as sweet as it seems”
“I, who ne'erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing's much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much the same as thieving.”
“Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.”
“Every time we look at the Blessed Sacrament our place in heaven is raised forever.”
“Itâ€™s mentally exhausting, feeling bad about something you can do nothing about.”
“And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.”
“To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.”
“It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us.”

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