"The question is to push your brain toward those more creative networks. The answer, as it happens, is delightfully fractal: to make your mind more innovative, you have to place it inside environments that share that same network signature: networks of ideas or people that mimic the neural networks of a mind exploring the boundaries of the adjacent possible." [p.47 (book)/ 59 (document)]
"But the lack of a record is exactly the point. In a low density, chaotic network, ideas come and go." (p.54 / 66)
"Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, and da Vinci were emerging from a medieval culture that suffered from from too much order." (p.56 / 68)
"What makes the history of double-entry so fascinating is the simple fact that no one seems to have claimed ownership of the technique, despite its immense value to capitalist enterprise." (p.57 / 69)
"They simply widened the pool of minds that could come up with and share good ideas. This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It's not that the network itself is smart; it's that the individuals get smarter because they're connected to the network." (p.58 / 70)
"... as questions from colleagues forced researchers to think about their experiments on a different scale or level." (p.61 / 73)
"The social flow of the group conversation turns that private solid state into a liquid network." (p.62 / 74)
"The idea, of course, is to strike the right balance of order and chaos." (p.62 / 74)
"Most walls are write-on/wipe-off, so if inspiration hits on the way to the restroom, you can quickly sketch out an idea for your colleagues to see ... In a sense, Clarkson built the watercoolers first, and then designed an office building around them." (p.64 / 76)
