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

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Source : Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.20, Penguin

Steven Johnson

“I did not have textual relations with that server.”
“One Child's courage to survive”
“To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Â Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.”
“The opener is always very difficult every single year. It Really doesn't matter whom you play. The opener is difficult because you've got more time to prepare for one game than you do any game the rest of the year because you've got all spring, all summer to prepare for this opponent.”

Source : Source: thetandd.com
“There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others.”
“I'd love to do a film with Mariah. But it would have to be a comedy. She's the funniest woman in the world, she just cracks me up all the time.”
“I also had a stuttering problem. In a Mexican home they don't give you speech therapy; they don't even know what speech therapy is. They just get the belt. If there's a parrot in the house, you better talk better than the parrot.”
“I find that people can pass me on the street who've just seen my picture in the paper and they wouldn't recognize me. If they'd seen me on television, the heads turn. They say, "Wait a minute. I don't know who that is, but he's somebody.”

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