Steven Johnson Where good ideas come from

So, where do those ideas come from? Policymakers, like all of us, are slaves to fashion.

Jesus said, For out of the heart come evil thoughts murders, sexual immorality, theft, false testimonies, slander.

Referencing Steven Johnson's very lovely speech yesterday on where ideas come from, I was in the shower at the time I was alone.

We have to break parents out of this straitjacket that the only ideas we can try at home are ones that come from shrinks or self help gurus or other family experts.

Folk ideas about heredity are a particularly powerful cultural tool, but they are not unique to pre modern societies.

And a few years ago, a wonderful researcher named Kevin Dunbar decided to go around and basically do the Big Brother approach to figuring out where good ideas come from.

Since many of the best ideas and innovations come from small companies rather than large, established firms, the ongoing credit contraction will inevitably have long term growth costs.

In any contest of ideas, the extreme will usually triumph over the moderate.

He pointed out that when ideas first come into the world, they are likely to be woolly, and in need of more work to define them sharply.

Better late than never.

A Contagion of Bad Ideas

A Time to Dare

Ideas over Interests

Civilizing the Marketplace of Ideas

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

When Yes Means No

Words express thoughts.

Some informal ideas were presented.

And this one is I wish to launch a groundbreaking competition that motivates kids to invest ideas on, and invent ideas on, sustainability.

The Global Ideas Bank is the opposite of Halfbakery in that ideas are proposed seriously, and in some cases actually implemented.

Where does it come from?

She might come tomorrow.

Democracy Comes Second

Why didn't you come?

Otherwise, consequences follow.

Following the placement of each of the ideas into one of the categories above, the participants Workshop agreed to forward to the Open ended Working Group the following list of ideas and activities that could form the basis of a conceptual framework of cooperation to address illegal trade in ozone depleting substances. In so doing, some delegates noted that many of the same ideas could be used to address illegal trade in products or equipment containing ozone depleting substances

He said to the disciples, It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come but woe unto him, through whom they come!

It's a millefiori of ideas.

But ideas matter.

He has a lot of original ideas.

American Conservatism s Crisis of Ideas

In the following interview Bashir tells his story.

The government will not even discuss the Charter s ideas, let alone do anything to implement them.

A book, The Big Idea Book, comprising 500 of the best ideas was published by Wiley in 2003.

Economists love theories that place organized special interests at the root of all political evil. In the real world, they cannot wriggle so easily out of responsibility for the bad ideas that they have so often spawned.

Instead of editions coming out every two years, of a book, imagine it coming out every 25 seconds.

It's the interchange of ideas, the meeting and mating of ideas between them, that is causing technological progress, incrementally, bit by bit.

Grace hasn't come yet.

She's come to make trouble.

Why didn't you come visit me?

Misfortunes never come singly.

You have to come with me.

You can't come now. There's a lot going on. Maybe you could come later.