Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years.

Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Chance favors the connected mind.