"Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another."

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Source : "Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From". www.wired.com. September 27, 2010.

Steven Johnson

#Innovation Quotes #Radio Quotes #Telephones Quotes

“Less coin, less care ...”
“The doctor unfortunately said I was fit.”
“I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required.”
“I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.”
“Jennifer Garner and I are very close.”
“If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.”
“And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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