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Steven Johnson Quotes

In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions are somehow made collectively. The control of the system is in the hands of everyone who is a part of it.

Steven Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1968

Topics

Boss Control Decisions Hands System

We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

Jesse Jackson

Pain Reveal Conceal Our Successes

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.

Andrea Martin

You Down Difficult Turn Anything

It appears the Kochs are among the most defensive billionaires, preferring the comfy confines of their callous and intellectually dishonest world view.

Robert Greenwald

World View Dishonest Defensive Most

I can remember the World's Fair in New York in 1964; I was three.

Stanley Tucci

New York World Remember I Can Three

My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge. He insisted that I get as much education as my brothers.

Shirin Neshat

Education Father Knowledge Doctor He

Bands in the Nineties seem to forget the entertainment aspect of rock music.

Matt Bellamy

Music Forget Entertainment Rock Seem

One hundred and fifty years after Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, equality for many Americans remains elusive.

Mike Quigley

Equality Years Fifty Gettysburg Many

When I perform, I like to wear funky flats, leather boots or knee-high Converse with bright laces. Then I can dance and not worry about falling.

China Anne McClain

Dance Worry Boots I Can Bright Wear

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Clarence Darrow

Die Never Pleasure See Obituary Few

For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.

ASAP Rocky

Best Me Growing Up Down Growing Big

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

Swami Sivananda

Spiritual Humility Weakness Cowardice

In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.

Marion Bailey

People Reading Lead Because Would