"If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect."

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

Steven Johnson

#Ideas Quotes #Creating Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The footage that you're about to watch of China's dog-leather trade is one of the worst things I've ever seen.”
“Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.”
“I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.”
“Just so you know I never had a dad either, but that's another story for another time.”
“Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.”

Source : Joe Haldeman (2006). “A Separate War and Other Stories”, p.108, Penguin
“Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.”

Source : "Differences in Bible Translations". Bible Translation Magazine Interview, christianpublishinghouse.co. October 10, 2016.
“It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death.”
“My parents, despite their serious attitude toward life in general, and that of their children in particular, were very broadminded people. There was no such thing as a bad profession for them. As I was their daughter, they knew that, whatever profession I chose, I would do it well. That was enough for them. There was always trust among the Kellys.”

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